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Screensharing doesn't work on wayland

Observed behaviour

The screenshare window closes, and nothing happens. Other users see a brief screenshare start and end immediately. Expected behaviour The screenshare would start with the given share target.

Reproduction steps

  1. Join a call
  2. Start a screenshare
  3. Select either the whole screen or a window
  4. Select the preview shown by Fluxer
  5. Select either the whole screen or a window again

Details

Summary

Screensharing shows the preview, then does not actually start streaming on Hyprland.

Area

Frontend / Web

Environment

  • Version: stable build 71 (b2514d1), 2026-01-07 17:42:28 UTC, Electron 39.2.7, Linux 6.18.5-2-cachyos (x64), desktop stable 0.0.8
  • Hyprland-git, CachyOS,
  • xdg-desktop-portal-hyprland
  • pipewire

Logs / screenshots

[selectDisplayMediaSource] Source not found: window:1:0
Original by Rex
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Screensharing doesn't work on wayland

Observed behaviour

The screenshare window closes, and nothing happens. Other users see a brief screenshare start and end immediately. Expected behaviour The screenshare would start with the given share target.

Reproduction steps

  1. Join a call
  2. Start a screenshare
  3. Select either the whole screen or a window
  4. Select the preview shown by Fluxer
  5. Select either the whole screen or a window again

Details

Summary

Screensharing shows the preview, then does not actually start streaming on Hyprland.

Area

Frontend / Web

Environment

  • Version: stable build 71 (b2514d1), 2026-01-07 17:42:28 UTC, Electron 39.2.7, Linux 6.18.5-2-cachyos (x64), desktop stable 0.0.8
  • Hyprland-git, CachyOS,
  • xdg-desktop-portal-hyprland
  • pipewire

Logs / screenshots

[selectDisplayMediaSource] Source not found: window:1:0

Pre-flight checks

  • ☑ I searched for existing issues and didn't find a duplicate.
  • ☑ This is not a security vulnerability report (those go to https://fluxer.app/security).
  • ☑ I included enough information to reproduce the issue.