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Re:Gaming on Wayland by jl6 on Tuesday December 14, 2021 @07:20PM (#29560155)
What would it take for Zoom and gcolor2 to be amended to work with Wayland?
Re:Gaming on Wayland by notthathardbro on Tuesday December 14, 2021 @07:25PM (#29560204)
Well, given that `gcolor2` is open source, it does already work with Wayland if you have XDG Portal setup correctly.

And Zoom could, too, if they cared. (And by the way, I use Zoom in browser with Wayland when required by <obligation>, and it works fine.)

Once again, people miffed at Linux because closed source app developers are lazy and don't give two shits. (Which would be and often is a pain for plenty of other reasons than Wayland.)

Re:Gaming on Wayland by xrd on Wednesday December 15, 2021 @12:12AM (#29562353)
I don't know what xdg-portal is or how to set it up. When I searched in Google, the very first link has a bad SSL certificate (which I accepted anyway, but seems very complex at first glance), the next from Reddit didn't work and said the tutorials were all out of date.

I totally agree Zoom should fix it, but they haven't yet.

I tried to install xdg-desktop-portal with ` nix-env --install xdg-desktop-portal` but running xdg-desktop-portal does not find the binary. I'm just confused what this command does anyway.

Re:Gaming on Wayland by noahtallen on Tuesday December 14, 2021 @08:57PM (#29561094)
There is a lot of conversation about Zoom here: https://github.com/flathub/us.zoom.Zoom/issues/22

Apparently, there has been some recent activity via support channels. But I’d bet it’s probably not that difficult, just a matter of the team’s priorities to get to it. Then again, zoom isn’t very active or transparent in the OSS world, so it’s hard to say.

Re:Gaming on Wayland by tgbugs on Tuesday December 14, 2021 @07:28PM (#29560234)
Their developers to implement some dbus protocol probably?
Re:Gaming on Wayland by smlx on Tuesday December 14, 2021 @08:10PM (#29560653)
More accurately, the developers need to a) fix the buggy implementation of the Gnome-specific protocol they currently use, and b) switch to the standard screensharing protocol.

https://github.com/flathub/us.zoom.Zoom/pull/182#issuecommen...

Re:Gaming on Wayland by ledbettj on Tuesday December 14, 2021 @08:06PM (#29560621)
Zoom happily supports screen sharing on Wayland/gnome, even using the flatpak version.
Re:Gaming on Wayland by smlx on Tuesday December 14, 2021 @08:10PM (#29560664)
Not if you use screen scaling.
Re:Gaming on Wayland by coddingtonbear on Tuesday December 14, 2021 @08:27PM (#29560825)
For what it's worth, I do use screen scaling (in fact: different scales on different screens) and haven't had trouble with screen sharing on Zoom on Ubuntu in over a year.