wayland fractional scaling breaks some screenshares

Bug #2049309 reported by Johan Vandegriff
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Bug Description

1) Ubuntu 22.04.3 LTS with Gnome and Wayland
2) Unsure what package is the problem, here are the versions of a few:
gnome-shell 42.9-0ubuntu2
xdg-desktop-portal 1.14.4-1ubuntu2~22.04.1
xdg-desktop-portal-gnome 42.1-0ubuntu1
xdg-desktop-portal-gtk 1.14.0-1build1
3) expected: with fractional scaling enabled, sharing a window to an application would share the full window
4) actual: for some apps, only the top-right part of the window is shared

Some apps are displayed correctly, like terminal and file explorer, but other apps only show the top-right, such as virtualbox and vscodium. When fractional scaling is disabled, these apps share properly again.

It doesn't seem to depend on the app you are sharing to, I tested it on firefox, chromium, and OBS studio and it was consistent across all 3. Attached is a screenshot of virtualbox being shared through chromium and only the top left part of the window is being shared.

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Johan Vandegriff (johanvandegriff) wrote :
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Paul White (paulw2u)
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affects: ubuntu → mutter (Ubuntu)
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Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt) wrote :

I think screen sharing is instigated from gnome-shell rather than being an underlying mutter feature so perhaps report the bug to https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/-/issues

But they will likely also want you to check the bug still exists in GNOME 45 (Ubuntu 23.10).

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