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System_3rro

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Registered: 2025-01-28

Posts: 2

share audio and display

Hi everyone, I'm new to the community. 
I've been using Arch Linux for a couple of months now, and just recently discovered that when you share your screen, it doesn't share the audio as well. 

It's been a couple of days that I've been trying to figure out how to fix this, but I haven't found a way to do it yet. 

For the audio i'm using pipewire.

I was hoping for your help. Below, I'll share some details about my PC and system: 

OS: Arch Linux x86_64
Host: Nitro AN515-57 V1.20
Shell: bash 5.2.37
DE: Plasma 6.2.5
WM: kwin
CPU: 11th Gen Intel i7-11800H (16) @ 4.600GHz
GPU: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Ti Mobile
GPU: Intel TigerLake-H GT1 [UHD Graphics]
Memory: 3928MiB / 15767MiB

pactl list short
1       libpipewire-module-rt   {
            nice.level    = -11
            rt.prio       = 88
            #rt.time.soft = -1
            #rt.time.hard = -1
            #uclamp.min = 0
            #uclamp.max = 1024
        }
2       libpipewire-module-protocol-native      {
            # List of server Unix sockets, and optionally permissions
            #sockets = [ { name = "pipewire-0" }, { name = "pipewire-0-manager" } ]
        }
4       libpipewire-module-profiler
6       libpipewire-module-metadata
8       libpipewire-module-spa-device-factory
10      libpipewire-module-spa-node-factory
12      libpipewire-module-client-node
14      libpipewire-module-client-device
16      libpipewire-module-portal
17      libpipewire-module-access       {
            # Socket-specific access permissions
            #access.socket = { pipewire-0 = "default", pipewire-0-manager = "unrestricted" }

            # Deprecated legacy mode (not socket-based),
            # for now enabled by default if access.socket is not specified
            #access.legacy = true
        }
18      libpipewire-module-adapter
20      libpipewire-module-link-factory
22      libpipewire-module-session-manager
536870912       module-always-sink
536870913       module-device-manager
536870914       module-device-restore
536870915       module-stream-restore
57      alsa_output.pci-0000_00_1f.3.analog-stereo      PipeWire        s32le 2ch 48000Hz       SUSPENDED
75      alsa_output.pci-0000_01_00.1.hdmi-stereo        PipeWire        s32le 2ch 48000Hz       SUSPENDED
412     bluez_output.BB_29_75_05_53_BE.1        PipeWire        s16le 1ch 16000Hz       RUNNING
57      alsa_output.pci-0000_00_1f.3.analog-stereo.monitor      PipeWire        s32le 2ch 48000Hz       SUSPENDED
58      alsa_input.pci-0000_00_1f.3.analog-stereo       PipeWire        s32le 2ch 48000Hz       SUSPENDED
75      alsa_output.pci-0000_01_00.1.hdmi-stereo.monitor        PipeWire        s32le 2ch 48000Hz       SUSPENDED
387     bluez_input.BB:29:75:05:53:BE   PipeWire        float32le 1ch 48000Hz   RUNNING
412     bluez_output.BB_29_75_05_53_BE.1.monitor        PipeWire        s16le 1ch 16000Hz       RUNNING
104     412     103     PipeWire        float32le 2ch 48000Hz
115     387     92      PipeWire        s16le 2ch 48000Hz
440     387     92      PipeWire        s16le 2ch 48000Hz
32      PipeWire        wireplumber
33      PipeWire        pipewire
46      PipeWire        wireplumber
65      PipeWire        kwin_wayland
80      PipeWire        kded6
81      PipeWire        kded6
82      PipeWire        xdg-desktop-portal
83      PipeWire        plasmashell
84      PipeWire        plasmashell
85      PipeWire        plasmashell
91      PipeWire        qpwgraph
92      PipeWire        brave
103     PipeWire        brave
207     PipeWire        brave
386     PipeWire        wireplumber
458     PipeWire        pactl
0       audio-volume-change     s16le 2ch 48000Hz       0.301
50      alsa_card.pci-0000_01_00.1      alsa
51      alsa_card.pci-0000_00_1f.3      alsa
385     bluez_card.BB_29_75_05_53_BE    module-bluez5-device.c

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

Posts: 25,178

Re: share audio and display

Please use [ code ] and not [ quote ] for outputs.

That strongly depends on the application, if you happen to be talking about the discord client, then this is a long standing issue, that is hopefully soon to be fixed. If you test it in a browser that should normally work fine, though not sure how up to date brave is to the chromium baseline.

System_3rro

Member

Registered: 2025-01-28

Posts: 2

Re: share audio and display

It's my first time asking something here, didn't know which one to use thx.

Thx for the response, I don't think Brave support that because i'm having problem even whit it, I've tried with meet.

Thx anyway, I'll keep looking a way to make this in case i'll update here.

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

Posts: 25,178

Re: share audio and display

I'd say test chromium directly that should work, or something that's generally more guaranteed to have the necessary tooling, like obs or so.