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AndreasZiegler

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Registered: 2021-06-24

Posts: 13

Zoom screen sharing does not work on Wayland using sway WM

Dear Arch Linux community,

Since I moved from dwm to sway and therefore from X11 to Wayland, I did not manage to get screen sharing on Zoom to work. What I have done so far:

* Followed these instructions: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Zoom_Meetings#Wayland
* Followed these instructions: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/XDG_Desktop_Portal

This is my script to start sway

#!/bin/sh

# Session
export XDG_SESSION_TYPE=wayland
export XDG_SESSION_DESKTOP=sway
export XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP=sway
#export XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP=wlr

# Wayland stuff
export MOZ_ENABLE_WAYLAND=1
export QT_QPA_PLATFORM=wayland
export SDL_VIDEODRIVER=wayland
export _JAVA_AWT_WM_NONREPARENTING=1

# seogi
#export GTK_IM_MODULE=wayland
#export QT_IM_MODULE=wayland
#export XMODIFIERS="@im=wayland"

exec dbus-run-session sway "$@"

My ~/.config/xdg-desktop-portal/portals.conf:

[preferred]
default=wlr

My ~/.config/xdg-desktop-portal/sway-portals.conf:

[preferred]
# use xdg-desktop-portal-gtk for every portal interface
default=gtk
# except for the xdg-desktop-portal-wlr supplied interfaces
# org.freedesktop.impl.portal.Screencast=wlr
# org.freedesktop.impl.portal.Screenshot=wlr
org.freedesktop.portal.Screencast=wlr
org.freedesktop.portal.Screenshot=wlr

Using Mozilla's GetUserMedia WebRTC test page I can only share tabs in my browser and no windows or the entire screen. Therefore, the issue might be in general and not just for Zoom.

Any help is appreciated. Also, please let me know, if you need any further information.

Kind regards,
Andreas

Last edited by AndreasZiegler (2024-09-09 08:45:57)

Cyb3rD4d

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Registered: 2019-10-21

Posts: 7

Re: Zoom screen sharing does not work on Wayland using sway WM

It seems that the screen sharing with Zoom 6.1.11 is broken: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/zoom#comment-989804
Some people in this thread say there is an incompatibility with pipewire 1.2: https://community.zoom.com/t5/Zoom-Meet … m-p/200498

dafeder

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Registered: 2024-11-08

Posts: 1

Re: Zoom screen sharing does not work on Wayland using sway WM

Honestly, if you use Zoom screen sharing a lot stick with X. It's frustrating but it's still too flaky/broken. I have i3wm on my work machine because I just do too much screen-sharing and need it to just work.