hey there,
today while i was in my online class , my tutor asked me to share my screen to check my program . bu t when i tried to do it it only shares a blank screen with a mouse pointer. i was on manjaro gnome , firefox , google meet . i had the same experience while i was using discord. when i tried to share the screen it only shares the blank screen with mouse pointer. how can i fix this ?
Please post the output of inxi -Fazy
. I believe this is caused by you using a Wayland compositor.
System:
Kernel: 5.8.18-1-MANJARO x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 10.2.0
parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-5.8-x86_64
root=UUID=259aae08-fc59-4ec8-a4db-e26e2d716fa4 rw quiet udev.log_priority=3
Desktop: GNOME 3.38.1 tk: GTK 3.24.23 wm: gnome-shell dm: GDM 3.38.2
Distro: Manjaro Linux
Machine:
Type: Laptop System: ASUSTeK product: TUF Gaming FX505DY_FX505DY v: 1.0
serial: <filter>
Mobo: ASUSTeK model: FX505DY v: 1.0 serial: <filter>
UEFI: American Megatrends v: FX505DY.315 date: 03/09/2020
Battery:
ID-1: BAT0 charge: 37.1 Wh condition: 38.1/48.0 Wh (79%) volts: 11.9/11.9
model: ASUSTeK ASUS Battery type: Li-ion serial: N/A status: Not charging
CPU:
Info: Quad Core model: AMD Ryzen 5 3550H with Radeon Vega Mobile Gfx
bits: 64 type: MT MCP arch: Zen+ family: 17 (23) model-id: 18 (24)
stepping: 1 microcode: 8108102 L2 cache: 2048 KiB
flags: avx avx2 lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 sse4a ssse3 svm
bogomips: 33548
Speed: 1222 MHz min/max: 1400/2100 MHz boost: enabled Core speeds (MHz):
1: 1223 2: 1282 3: 1222 4: 1222 5: 1397 6: 1396 7: 1338 8: 1395
Vulnerabilities: Type: itlb_multihit status: Not affected
Type: l1tf status: Not affected
Type: mds status: Not affected
Type: meltdown status: Not affected
Type: spec_store_bypass
mitigation: Speculative Store Bypass disabled via prctl and seccomp
Type: spectre_v1
mitigation: usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer sanitization
Type: spectre_v2 mitigation: Full AMD retpoline, IBPB: conditional, STIBP:
disabled, RSB filling
Type: srbds status: Not affected
Type: tsx_async_abort status: Not affected
Graphics:
Device-1: AMD Baffin [Radeon RX 460/560D / Pro 450/455/460/555/555X/560/560X] vendor: ASUSTeK driver: amdgpu v: kernel bus ID: 01:00.0 chip ID: 1002:67ef
Device-2: AMD Picasso vendor: ASUSTeK driver: amdgpu v: kernel
bus ID: 04:00.0 chip ID: 1002:15d8
Device-3: IMC Networks USB2.0 HD UVC WebCam type: USB driver: uvcvideo
bus ID: 1-4:3 chip ID: 13d3:56a2 serial: <filter>
Display: wayland server: X.org 1.20.9 compositor: gnome-shell driver: amdgpu
note: display driver n/a - try sudo/root display ID: 0
resolution: <xdpyinfo missing>
OpenGL: renderer: AMD Radeon Vega 8 Graphics (RAVEN DRM 3.38.0
5.8.18-1-MANJARO LLVM 11.0.0)
v: 4.6 Mesa 20.2.3 direct render: Yes
Audio:
Device-1: AMD Raven/Raven2/Fenghuang HDMI/DP Audio vendor: ASUSTeK
driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus ID: 04:00.1 chip ID: 1002:15de
Device-2: AMD Family 17h HD Audio vendor: ASUSTeK driver: snd_hda_intel
v: kernel bus ID: 04:00.6 chip ID: 1022:15e3
Sound Server: ALSA v: k5.8.18-1-MANJARO
Network:
Device-1: Realtek RTL8821CE 802.11ac PCIe Wireless Network Adapter
vendor: AzureWave driver: rtl8821ce v: N/A modules: 8821ce port: e000
bus ID: 02:00.0 chip ID: 10ec:c821
IF: wlp2s0 state: up mac: <filter>
Device-2: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet
vendor: ASUSTeK driver: r8169 v: kernel port: d000 bus ID: 03:00.0
chip ID: 10ec:8168
IF: enp3s0 state: down mac: <filter>
Drives:
Local Storage: total: 931.51 GiB used: 53.10 GiB (5.7%)
SMART Message: Required tool smartctl not installed. Check --recommends
ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Toshiba model: MQ04ABF100 size: 931.51 GiB
block size: physical: 4096 B logical: 512 B speed: 6.0 Gb/s
rotation: 5400 rpm serial: <filter> rev: 0J scheme: GPT
Partition:
ID-1: / raw size: 149.97 GiB size: 146.62 GiB (97.76%)
used: 53.08 GiB (36.2%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda6
Swap:
Alert: No Swap data was found.
Sensors:
System Temperatures: cpu: 48.5 C mobo: N/A
Fan Speeds (RPM): cpu: 3200
GPU: device: amdgpu temp: 48.0 C device: amdgpu temp: 45.0 C watts: 7.08
Info:
Processes: 260 Uptime: 36m Memory: 7.53 GiB used: 1.53 GiB (20.3%)
Init: systemd v: 246 Compilers: gcc: 10.2.0 clang: 11.0.0 Packages:
pacman: 1164 lib: 325 Shell: Zsh v: 5.8 running in: gnome-terminal
inxi: 3.1.08
Wayland screen sharing is not nearly as mature as X11 screen sharing.
The simplest and quickest solution is to log out, and before logging in, click on the gear icon in the lower right corner, and select the Xorg/X11 session.
Electron applications can only share the full screen when you are in an X11 session, nonetheless, even in a Wayland session, you should be able to share other X11 applications running in XWayland, just not Wayland-native applications and the full screen.
There is some experimental support for full screen sharing in Firefox and Google Chrome, as far as I’m aware.
Addendum:
our result after a lot of tries in screen sharing:
JITSI and chrome/chromium is the best combo for us.
With Firefox and other browsers we have had problems again and again.
Especially when we wanted to share one application window.
thanks bro , it’s working now. is there any way i could set xorg as default to load instead of logging out and in again ?
but irrespective of browser , my discord screen sharing is not working also . is this have something to do with the gnome variant ? what is it connected with
Not working in X11? Or not working in Wayland?
I believe it remembers your last choice, although I’m not sure.
both discord and firefox is working fine now.
wow nice! Glad to hear about it. Thanks for sharing.
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