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by michaelmrose 2067 days ago
I salute your creativity and tenacity but what the actual fuck the need for a rube goldberg setup in order to make an application work is ... unfortunate. If I did such a thing I would take one last look to take pride in my work before deleting the whole affair and installing an OS that isn't broken.
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Arnavion 2067 days ago
Well, I knew what I was signing up for when I decided to switch from X to Wayland, so I'm personally okay with it. It's the same with doing anything that isn't mainstream, such as my decision to use Linux in a workplace where a lot of stuff is Windows-first, and sometimes Windows-only. The best thing the iPhone did to the world was to make web applications more popular, and as long as Safari lags on web standards it pushes websites to not use Chromium-only features and give Firefox users like me a chance.

Anyway, a less convoluted setup might be to use the browser version of Teams in a browser where it allows you to screen-share, ie Chromium and not Firefox. IIRC when I tried it a few months ago people on the call said they could only see me broadcasting a black screen, but I know the browser is fine so it had to have been a Teams issue. Maybe it's fixed now.

Hopefully these applications will catch up soon. As another example, Zoom's native Electron application uses a GNOME-specific method of screen-sharing which doesn't work in non-GNOME DEs, but I've heard the browser version works fine.

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martinsb 2067 days ago
Re: black screen when using Teams from browser. Check you have environment variables set correctly: XDG_SESSION_TYPE=wayland and XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP=sway. I set up them in my .zshrc before starting sway. This helped me to fix the black screen issue. Hope it helps you too!
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Arnavion 2067 days ago
If those env vars weren't set screen-sharing with xdpw would be broken as a whole because pipewire wouldn't invoke it, which wasn't the case. Other applications like that one python gstreamer script could access xdpw just fine, and Firefox and Chromium could screen-share in other websites (like Mozilla's gUM test page) just fine; the only one broken was Teams.
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