Cannot watch other user's screenshare

(#391) Bug Awaiting confirmation video voice

Summary

Whenever my friends starts a screenshare, I can see the preview but once i actually join the stream, all i can see is a gray screen. It doesn't seem to be happening to my friends (who're on windows). The issue happens both on the desktop app (latest git being 03813bbe17db008452f0f1be3090a7d2970a5447) and the browser app

Steps to reproduce

  1. Join a screenshare
  2. gray screen

Environment (optional)

  • OS: NixOS 26.05

Logs or screenshots (optional)

559964347-a633878a-f979-4608-b7a6-fcede2f29f06.mp4
559964347-a633878a-f979-4608-b7a6-fcede2f29f06.mp4 | 573 kB

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Comment by Rex
RexSystem 1 vote
Status changed from Fixed to Awaiting confirmation
This was closed in a bulk cleanup before Fluxer V2 without being checked or fixed. It may work now, so it is waiting for someone to confirm whether the bug still happens.
Comment by @sammypanda
RexSystem 1 vote originally by @sammypanda on GitHub
i have this issue too: linux firefox, android firefox, linux client
Comment by @gg-plato
RexSystem 1 vote originally by @gg-plato on GitHub
I also had this issue, my friend was screensharing from a windows machine and the preview works, but on watching all I get is a gray screen. I'm using the flatpak.
Comment by @claymorwan
RexSystem 1 vote originally by @claymorwan on GitHub OP
still not working on the latest canary (0.0.46), linux client. My friend on windows is able to see and hear my stream but im not able to see or hear hers. I can only see the preview befoer i click and just a gray screen when im in
Comment by ternera
terneraMod 1 vote originally by @ternera on GitHub
still not working on the latest canary (0.0.46), linux client. My friend on windows is able to see and hear my stream but im not able to see or hear hers. I can only see the preview befoer i click and just a gray screen when im in
Note that the Canary client is generally unsupported and should only be used if Fluxer staff specifically ask you to test something. That being said, there currently is a channel in Fluxer HQ with a list of bugs/feedback that staff are looking for and any related issues should be supported in the #canary-bug-reports channel in Fluxer HQ.
Comment by @claymorwan
RexSystem 1 vote originally by @claymorwan on GitHub OP
Yea the reason why I'm mentioning canary here is to point out that this issue occurs on both the stable and canary build of fluxer
Comment by @ZorudaRinku
RexSystem 1 vote originally by @ZorudaRinku on GitHub
Switching to Canary resolved it for me. Something might've made it to the canary builds that resolved it