Re: Screen sharing: global solution for Wayland that works for all apps

2022-01-07 Thread George N. White III
On Fri, 7 Jan 2022 at 18:50, Raman Gupta wrote: > Off the top of my head the tools that are either completely broken or > partially broken on Wayland that work fine on X11. > > * Google Meet > * Zoom > * MS Teams > * Slack screen sharing > * Discord screen sharing > > and then there are the vario

Re: Screen sharing: global solution for Wayland that works for all apps

2022-01-07 Thread Raman Gupta
Off the top of my head the tools that are either completely broken or partially broken on Wayland that work fine on X11. * Google Meet * Zoom * MS Teams * Slack screen sharing * Discord screen sharing and then there are the various broken desktop sharing apps: * TeamViewer * AnyDesk * Chrome Rem

Re: Screen sharing: global solution for Wayland that works for all apps

2022-01-07 Thread George N. White III
On Fri, 7 Jan 2022 at 09:50, Raman Gupta wrote: > It's very unfortunate in this day and age of remote working that screen > sharing is > so broken on a modern Linux desktop. Back to X11 for me as well. > For many users, screen sharing is no longer the preferred option for remote work because the

Re: Screen sharing: global solution for Wayland that works for all apps

2022-01-07 Thread Raman Gupta
It's very unfortunate in this day and age of remote working that screen sharing is so broken on a modern Linux desktop. Back to X11 for me as well. For anyone else on KDE making the switch, keep in mind the workaround in https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=385135. On Wed, Jan 5, 2022 at 3:56 PM

Re: Screen sharing: global solution for Wayland that works for all apps

2022-01-05 Thread Neal Becker
You may have heard me mention on this list that this is a barrier for me to switch to Wayland. Working from home, as so many of us are, I need to give presentations. I prefer not to share my screen, but share a window. Using chrome, for example, I could share a screen, a window, or a tab. Probl

Screen sharing: global solution for Wayland that works for all apps

2022-01-05 Thread Raman Gupta
I'm finally switching over to Wayland as my daily driver. However, I'm still finding big problems with screen sharing in general. I'm on KDE/Plasma. Many apps that are supposed to support screen sharing on Wayland -- Electron-based apps, Chromium, OBS, proprietary apps like Zoom etc. either compl