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Screen sharing and capture in Wayland on Gentoo
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The article shows the tweaks I had to make to my system in order to
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be able to share my screen in Zoom, and capture my screen in
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OBS under Gnome on Wayland on Gentoo.
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## Update
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While I thought this was working, when I came to a meeting to share
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my screen, my collegues could not see anything bar a single application.
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I did some troubleshooting on my own using Zooms record feature and
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was unable to resolve it using the Zoom flatpak package.
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I installed Zoom directly as an ebuild and was able to see the entire screen
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using that.
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Zoom
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Firstly, I'm using zoom via Flatpak. Flatpak is an official overlay
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on Gentoo.
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Once flatpak and zoom is installed via:
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flatpak install us.zoom.Zoom
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You can enable screen sharing via the following tweaks.
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Tweak 1: Allow flatpak to talk to gnome stuff I don't really understand
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sudo flatpak override --talk-name=org.gnome.Shell \
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--talk-name=org.gnome.Shell.Screenshot \
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--talk-name=org.gnome.SessionManager \
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--talk-name=org.freedesktop.PowerManagement.Inhibit \
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--talk-name=org.freedesktop.ScreenSaver us.zoom.Zoom
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Ref: https://github.com/flathub/us.zoom.Zoom/pull/182
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Tweak 2: Set this in your ~/.var/app/us.zoom.Zoom/config/zoomus.conf
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[General]
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enableWaylandShare=true
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OBS-Studio
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This guy Georges Stavracas wrote an OBS plugin to interface with
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xdg-desktop-portal. It works quite well and I've written an ebuild
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for it to work in Gentoo.
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You can add my overlay [here](https://github.com/zigford/gentoo-zigford)
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or pilfer my ebuild directly under media-plugins/obs-xdg-portal.
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### Hot Tip
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At first I could not get it to work, and that is because I lacked the
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understanding about how pipewire and xdg-desktop-portal works.
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One thing I found sorely lacking is the documentation. Eventually I
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stumbled upon someone saying you need to enable (or start) pipewire:
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systemctl --user enable --now pipewire
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Now the plugin allows you to pick your desktop. Strangely, the screenshots
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show the ability to choose an app, whereas I can only choose my screen.
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Oh well, let me know if you know why.
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Cheers
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Tags: gentoo, gnome, wayland, zoom, obs
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