Bug#968190: gnome-terminal is not listed by firefox when it wants to share a screen

[Marcin Szamotulski]

Thanks, that's indeed the case.

On Mon, 10 Aug 2020 19:19:29 +0100 Simon McVittie <smcv at debian.org> wrote:
> On Mon, 10 Aug 2020 at 11:20:33 +0000, Marcin Szamotulski wrote:
> >    Trying to share a gnome-terminal window in firefox (firefox-79.0, but
> >    also in previous versions of firefox).
> 
> If you're in the default (Wayland) GNOME session, gnome-terminal doesn't
> have any X11 windows. I suspect Firefox can only share X11 windows.
> 
> Please try this workaround (this assumes you are using gdm, other display
> managers will probably have a similar flow):
> 
> - save documents, etc.
> - log out
> - choose/enter your username
> - before typing your password, click the gear-wheel icon and select
>   session type "GNOME on Xorg"
> - finish logging back in
> 
> If that is successful, then my guess about the cause was probably correct.
> 
> The long-term solution to window and desktop sharing in GNOME Wayland
> sessions is to use Pipewire, but the version of Pipewire currently in
> Debian is too old (#954022) and Firefox doesn't support it yet anyway
> (https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1430775).
> 
>     smcv
> 
> 
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