No screen sharing on Firefox with Wayland
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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firefox (Ubuntu) |
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Bug Description
On Ubuntu 20.04.2 or 20.10, if I switch to a Wayland session, and open Firefox (currently 85.0.1) on a site using some screen sharing, Firefox does not list the available windows but only a line "Use operating system settings".
After choosing this only option, nothing happens and my screen is not shared.
When using the default Xorg session, Firefox lists the available windows and allows to share them.
Steps to reproduce :
- open a Wayland session
- open Firefox on https:/
- start a conference and join it
- try to share your screen (icon of a screen at the bottom left)
Expected behavior : Firefox should ask me which window to share (like on Xorg)
Actual behavior : Firefox does not list any window, but only a "Use operating system settings" line, and selecting it does nothing
NB : installing and starting pipewire (as suggested in http://
NB2 : the behavior is the same on other sites, like Google Meet
affects: | ubuntu → firefox (Ubuntu) |
tags: | added: focal groovy |
I tested the same on Chromium 88 (on Ubuntu 20.10) : it does not allow to choose a window other than the one of Chromium (or one of its tabs), but it works in this case.
It allows to share the entire screen, but it broadcasts a black screen instead of its actual content