Make screenshare work in wayland

[UPDATE]
fuck it, why the fuck do I need to pull pipewire and wireplumber and 1024 other dependencies only for a fucking screensharing to work? This pipewire thing is also trying to take control of audio. I DON’T FUCKING NEED IT THANKS! . Can’t we just have something that do one thing and one thing well?

Just do this instead, use v4l2loopback and wf-recorder, set up a virtual webcam!

sudo modprobe v4l2loopback exclusive_caps=1 card_label=VirtualVideoDevice
wf-recorder --muxer=v4l2 --codec=rawvideo --pixel-format yuv420p \
            --force-yuv --file=$(ls /dev/video* | tail -n1)

original post below


(under Archlinux/sway) ..

Packages to install:

  • xdg-desktop-portal
  • xdg-desktop-portal-wlr
  • optionally wireplumber

ENV to set:

export XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP=sway
export QT_QPA_PLATFORM=wayland

# or put this in sway config 
exec dbus-update-activation-environment --systemd WAYLAND_DISPLAY XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP=sway

Programs to run

pipewire
/usr/lib/xdg-desktop-portal-wlr -p BGRx 
/usr/lib/xdg-desktop-portal
wireplumber
url aliases (redirects):
/post/wayland_screenshare




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