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Joe S

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Registered: 2013-01-18

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[SOLVED] Firefox/Chromium screen sharing with KDE/Wayland broken

Hello,

I've been using screen sharing with Firefox and Chromium successfully under KDE/Wayland for over a year now, but since the last KDE (Pipewire?) update, it doesn't work any longer.

If I select screen sharing in Firefox the tab/screen/selector won't show up and I can't choose which screen to share. Chromium will show the selector of which screen/tab to share, but crashes the moment when I start screen sharing. I'm really at loss here, since I need screen sharing for work.

I've installed xdg-desktop-portal, xdg-desktop-portal-kde and all of the environment variables seem correct to me:

XDG_SESSION_DESKTOP=KDE
XDG_SESSION_TYPE=wayland

Last edited by Joe S (2025-04-02 07:43:55)

jl2

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Re: [SOLVED] Firefox/Chromium screen sharing with KDE/Wayland broken

related to https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=304521 ?
Have you filed a bug report at KDE?

Last edited by jl2 (2025-04-01 06:40:54)

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Joe S

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Registered: 2013-01-18

Posts: 19

Re: [SOLVED] Firefox/Chromium screen sharing with KDE/Wayland broken

related to https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=304521 ?
Have you filed a bug report at KDE?

I don't think it's related since I've tried both Firefox and Chromium and both seem affected. And I haven't filed a bug report at KDE yet, because I want to rule out any wrong configuration on my end/arch linux.

I'm really surprised that so few Linux people seem to use screen sharing – or is just my installation affected?

Joe S

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Registered: 2013-01-18

Posts: 19

Re: [SOLVED] Firefox/Chromium screen sharing with KDE/Wayland broken

Yesterday xdg-desktop-portal 1.20.0-2 was released and what can I say – screen sharing works now. So I'm kinda glad I didn't file a bug report at KDE.
Thanks all!

arojas

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Registered: 2011-10-09

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Re: [SOLVED] Firefox/Chromium screen sharing with KDE/Wayland broken

This has nothing to do with xdg-desktop-portal, it was fixed in chromium

Joe S

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Registered: 2013-01-18

Posts: 19

Re: [SOLVED] Firefox/Chromium screen sharing with KDE/Wayland broken

This has nothing to do with xdg-desktop-portal, it was fixed in chromium

It must be sth. else in my case, since now I can screen share via Firefox, too (which didn't work before).