Re: Wayland screen capture

[David Woodhouse <dwmw2 infradead org>]

On Mon, 2018-04-30 at 17:29 +0200, Jonas Ådahl wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 30, 2018 at 04:23:51PM +0100, David Woodhouse wrote:
> > On Mon, 2018-04-30 at 17:18 +0200, Jonas Ådahl wrote:
> > > 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
> >
> > Thanks. That looks reasonable to implement, at least for full-screen
> > sharing. I'll come back to individual windows later. If I update to
> > Fedora 28 do all those instructions about having to rebuild stuff for
> > myself and enable the features go away?
>
> Right, no need to rebuild anything.
 $ gsettings get org.gnome.mutter experimental-features
['screen-cast', 'remote-desktop']
 $ python3 gnome-screen-cast.py 
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "gnome-screen-cast.py", line 51, in <module>
    session.Start(dbus_interface=screen_cast_session_iface)
  File "/usr/lib64/python3.6/site-packages/dbus/proxies.py", line 145, in __call__
    **keywords)
  File "/usr/lib64/python3.6/site-packages/dbus/connection.py", line 651, in call_blocking
    message, timeout)
dbus.exceptions.DBusException: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.Failed: Failed to start screen cast: Couldn't 
connect pipewire remote

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