Re: Wayland screen capture

[Jonas Ådahl <jadahl gmail com>]

On Mon, Apr 30, 2018 at 01:36:48PM +0100, David Woodhouse wrote:
> I've just added screen sharing support to Pidgin, based on ximagesrc:
>
> https://bitbucket.org/pidgin/main/pull-requests/330#Lpidgin/gtkrequest.cT1783
>
> It's not wonderfully pretty, but it basically works, under X. I don't
> like the fact that I ended up using XQueryPointer(), but I don't think
> gdk_device_get_window_at_position() works for *foreign* windows, does
> it?
>
> More importantly, it's completely hosed for sharing either the full
> desktop or individual windows which are Wayland clients. And I have no
> real clue how to fix it. Suggestions please... :)

On Wayland, you should use the API provided by xdg-desktop-portal:
org.freedesktop.portal.ScreenCast. It is not directly related to X11
though, and should work the same no matter what windowing system you
use. Read more about it here:

https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/Mutter/RemoteDesktop


Jonas



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