Brave can't share screen

[XinJ]

Hello Everyone,

I just switched to Manjaro recently, however, I encountered an issue in which I was not able to share screens in Discord and Google Meet with Brave browser. Below attached with the version and package which I’m currently using.

Manjaro Version: 22.1.0
Gnome Version: 43.4
Wayland

[Mirdarthos]

Hi @XinJ, and welcome!

@XinJ

Wayland

This might be the reason, I don’t know - I don’t use Wayland. I do know, however, that Wayland still has numerous “issues” like this. So maybe it’ll work with X11…

[DaVla]

Does it works properly with Firefox for example?
I think hardware acceleration can cause issues with screen sharing. Try disabling hardware acceleration in Brave by going to Settings > Additional Settings > System > Use hardware acceleration when available, and toggling the switch off

[Tomek]

You need 3 things:

1. pipewire, install it with:

pamac install manjaro-pipewire

2. enabled enable-webrtc-pipewire-capturer flag in Brave brave://flags/#enable-webrtc-pipewire-capturer
3. enabled Hangouts in Brave settings brave://settings/extensions

[XinJ]

Hello,

I couldn’t run

pamac install manjaro-pipewire

I’m getting the error below:

Preparing...
==== AUTHENTICATING FOR org.manjaro.pamac.commit ====
Authentication is required to install, update, or remove packages
Authenticating as: user
Password: 
==== AUTHENTICATION COMPLETE ====
Synchronizing package databases...
Refreshing core.db...                                                           
Refreshing extra.db...                                                          
Refreshing community.db...                                                      
Refreshing multilib.db...                                                       
Error: multilib.db: GPGME error: No data                                        
Error: multilib.db: GPGME error: No data
Error: multilib.db: GPGME error: No data
Error: multilib.db: GPGME error: No data
invalid or corrupted database (PGP signature)
Failed to synchronize databases

Choose optional dependencies for manjaro-pipewire:
1:  easyeffects: advanced equalizer and effects
2:  pipewire-jack: Jack support
3:  pipewire-v4l2: V4L2 interceptor
4:  pipewire-x11-bell: X11 bell
5:  pipewire-zeroconf: Zeroconf support
6:  realtime-privileges: Realtime privileges for users

Enter a selection (default=none): 

Error: Failed to prepare transaction: target not found: manjaro-pipewire

Already run system update (Syu/Syy) before installing manjaro-pipewire

[XinJ]

My pc doesn’t have NVIDEA graphic card, that’s why I’m using wayland

[XinJ]

Tried, still the same

For Firefox its not working also.

[XinJ]

I fixed the issue by:

1. reinstalling v4l2loopback, reboot,
2. reinstalling manjaro-pipewire

[Mirdarthos]

@XinJ

invalid or corrupted database (PGP signature)

You should have read and fixed this before continuing. It is quite the common issue. So common, in fact, that trusted user created a script for this:

[HowTo] Work around gpg verification issue on left behind systems

I was a bit tired of explaining how to solve that issue and created a script, which does the job. I used full parameters so that total newbies maybe have clue what the commands actually do. Maybe it can be integrated somewhere or just use for inspiration for a better solution. #!/usr/bin/env bash set -o errexit #>Exit when a command fails (returns non-zero) set -o pipefail #>Exit when a command within a pipeline fail (returns non-zero) set -o nounset #>Forbid to use unset # Reset language…

TLDR:

(It’s not really recommended, you should read it and understand what’s going on)

Run this and try again:

bash <(curl -s "https://notabug.org/megavolt/random-scripts/raw/master/fix-gpg-pacman.sh")

Enjoy your day!