Show cursor setting has no effect while screen sharing

(#2363) Bug Fixed desktop video

Observed behaviour

Does not show the cursor

Reproduction steps

  1. Start a VC
  2. Start screensharing
  3. Right click on your screenshare and go to "Video and Audio" settings and turn on "Show Cursor"

Build information

canary build 564 (ad137ad), Electron 41.2.2, Linux 6.8.0-111-generic (x64), desktop canary 0.0.118, locale en-US

Platform

Linux

Evidence

Details

Expected behaviour Shows the cursor in the screenshare
  1. Rex changed the status from Needs triage to Fixed

3 comments

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Comment by ternera
terneraMod 1 vote
Can reproduce CR on Linux, works on MacOS - canary build 586 (96d2f9a), Electron 41.2.2, Linux 6.18.12-arm64 (arm64), desktop canary 0.0.121, locale en-US
Comment by mesub
mesubMod 1 vote
Can reproduce CR: canary build 633 (af9fc11), Electron 41.2.2, Windows 11 10.0.26200 (x64), desktop canary 0.0.131, locale en-GB
Comment by Fullest
FullestReviewer 1 vote
Can reproduce Not quite the same for me. Cursor shows regardless of the setting, so I suspect the setting just doesn't work currently on Linux. canary build 664 (d3ccc95), Electron 41.2.2, Linux 6.19.14-200.fc43.x86_64 (x64), desktop canary 0.0.166, locale en-US