Actually, it *may* work under Xwayland. I'm not sure. Either way, the
answer is to configure Chrome to use PipeWire. PipeWire is the official
means of screen recording/casting because Wayland by itself does not
allow apps to spy on each other, by design.
If you are having trouble getting PipeWire
Also, this is probably not a bug in any Ubuntu packages so I expect it
will be marked as Invalid unless we can find a reason otherwise.
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Title:
This will never work under Xwayland but it should work using native
Wayland. But Chrome will choose not to use native Wayland by default
(yet). Please try:
google-chrome --enable-features=UseOzonePlatform --ozone-
platform=wayland
and
chrome://flags/#enable-webrtc-pipewire-capturer
If that
Hi Robert,
Unfortunately this is not exactly a bug, it's a limitation of the Chrome
browser.
If you want to use the screen sharing functionality of Chrome you need two
things:
- you need the pipewire package, and you should have already have it
with hirsute
- you have to enable the following
