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Screenshares time out or don't work at all for other participants when streaming from linux

Observed behaviour

When attempting to stream on the latest desktop canary client on linux [I'm on cachyos with KDE], the stream times out for all other participants most of the time. When I restart my stream multiple times, sometimes it works after some time spent loading. Often times, even when the stream itself is having this issue and is displaying a loading icon, others can hear ones stream audio though. I tested on the same linux machine in a web browser, as well as on a windows client, and there, streaming works normally. Note that I got the same behaviour on both fluxer.app as well as my selfhosted instance.

Reproduction steps

  1. Install the latest canary desktop client on linux
  2. Stream in a VC to at least one other participant
  3. Have a participant try to watch your stream

Build information

Canary Desktop 2026.1008.190209, Web 2026.1008.190209, Linux 7.2.9-1-cachyos (x64), Electron 44.4.1, Chrome 152.0.7977.78, Node 24.21.0, Locale en-US

Platform

Linux