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I am not able to share screen while on wayland session. Sadly i really need that functionality for work so i use x, that is the only issue i have with wayland. Good news is that they only plan to do this in gtk5 hopefully things will get better until then.

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From what I see, most Wayland aware applications have converged on using PipeWire (through XDG Portal) for screen sharing.

Personally I use PipeWire anyway but I'll admit telling people to replace more of their setup as a solution isn't very nice.

Also there might be oddballs like how Zoom used to use the GNOME screenshot API for a while.

Latest Zoom release supports Wayland screen sharing.

The only oddball these days is Discord, because they refuse to ship an updated version of Electron. Works fine in-browser.

You can absolutely run pipewire for screen sharing while running something else for an audio server. If your distribution doesn't provide this as a supported setup, I suggest you check with them.

On Fedora 36 with Gnome/Wayland screen sharing works (using RDP protocol).

Works well, or just barely? Because the last time I checked it still had highly annoying 500ms lag and would sometimes miss screen updates.

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