I recently bought a Thinkpad E15 coming from a 8 yr old Lenovo Ideapad. I’m a teacher and have to conduct my lectures on Google Meet on Brave Browser.
I have encountered a problem that I’m not able to see any application windows to share. The other two options of sharing Entire Screen and Tab work flawlessly, but the specific window sharing is not working or rather not displaying any options (unable to show screenshots: unable to embed media items in a post error)
The feature seems to be working perfectly fine on my older laptop with the same browser version and fully updated OS. I went to all options of the browser and they are identical on both PCs.
I tried it on Firefox, Chromium and the platforms Google Meet and Jitsi, all seem to have the same problem.
If anyone can help find a solution, I’ll be deeply obliged.
I tried it on firefox as you suggested. I get the same popup as yours where the “Allow” button is faded out.
But if I click on the drop-down menu and change it to entire screen, it works fine (shows the small preview window and Allow button is clickable)
On chromium based browsers, it’s similar case where it allows me to choose between 3 tabs (entire screen, window or browser tab). But there are no application windows visible to choose from in the window tab.
And yes, I’m using Manjaro KDE.
Hope you understood whatever I’m stating above. The forum is not allowing me to post screenshots.
(Ich kann ein bisschen Deustch verstehen. So, das macht’s nichts. Und vielen dank für Ihre Hilfung. )
$ pamac search xdg-desktop-portal --no-aur --installed
xdg-desktop-portal-kde 5.21.5-1 extra
A backend implementation for xdg-desktop-portal using Qt/KF5
xdg-desktop-portal-gtk 1.8.0-1 extra
A GTK+ backend for xdg-desktop-portal
xdg-desktop-portal 1.8.1-1 extra
Desktop integration portals for sandboxed apps]
The o/p is same after the pamac update force refresh command.
I tried out gUM Test Page.
On Brave
Camera, Microphone, Screen Capture (Entire Screen and Tab) : Prints out Success! and works
Screen Capture (Window): Again no window showing and share is not clickable
“NotAllowedError: Permission denied” shows up on the gUM test page instead of the “Success!”.
On Firefox
Camera, Microphone, Screen Capture (Entire Screen) : Prints out Success! and works
Screen Capture (Select window or screen): Allow is not clickable on the dialog box.
Nothing appears on the gUM test page.
Now if I click on block, it displays “NotAllowedError: The request is not allowed by the user agent or the platform in the current context.”
I am not a KDE User and I guess it is a KDE specific issue. Since my research gave me zero answers, I would ask one of the @moderators who uses KDE everyday, if they know what the problem there is. What could it be?
It would be also good when you provide some system information:
I get the feeling that this is some minor security toggle which has been turned off on my PC. However, its just a hunch. The experts would know better.
Nevertheless, thank you for your help @megavolt. I deeply appreciate it.