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by Galanwe 1015 days ago
> What were you using on X that made you healthy?

Well my WM for a start. It did not migrate to Wayland.

And I also need to share screen from time to time (teams, Google chat, etc), which results in a dark screen for viewers in Wayland.
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nanna 1015 days ago
I despise Teams but when I was forced to use it for work and screensharing didn't work, I had to flee back to X.

Any updates from Microsoft on this issue?

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trey-jones 1015 days ago
Zoom is currently the same - the client finally runs in Wayland, but you can't screenshare. So it's X for now...
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helmchenlord 1015 days ago
The "update" is that the Teams Desktop Application for Linux was discontinued last year, and the only supported way to use Teams on Linux is now to open https://teams.microsoft.com in Google Chrome or Chromium (audio/video calls don't work on Firefox).

Since Chrome/Chromium supports screen sharing with Wayland, it simply just works for me nowy while it never worked with the Elecrton-based desktop application.

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nanna 1015 days ago
Oh, this I never knew. Thank you.
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csdreamer7 1015 days ago
I could not get Teams to even install on Xorg. At the time, screen sharing did not work in the browser.

Thankfully, my employer uses Google Meet for most of the meetings.

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MrDrMcCoy 1010 days ago
Screen sharing in Wayland is possible by capturing your window/desktop with OBS and streaming it to a virtual webcam that it can create for you. It's a minor hassle, but comes with the added benefit of filtering for your webcam. I use it to remove and replace my webcam background with a plugin, and it works for me in apps that don't have that as a feature.
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csdreamer7 1015 days ago
* What is your WM?

* Have they posted what is blocking them? Besides a lack of hands on keyboards?

I am trying to narrow down exactly what the issues are. Too much of the conversation is 'something' is broken in Wayland because of 'something'.

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Galanwe 1014 days ago
My WM is i3. I know sway exists, but last time I tried it was sufficiently different from i3 to be annoying.

I think overall the problem with Wayland is that there is no user facing improvement over X that I know of.

I have no doubt it's more modern, better engineered, or whatelse. But in the end, the days of fiddling endlessly with your xorg.conf are over, and X _just works_ out of the box on any distro / device.

All Wayland bring me is a switch of WM, and some bugs when screensharing, for no visible benefit.

The only hope of value add I can see with Wayland would be per-monitor DPI. But last I checked, it was hackish at best.

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