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[help] What is the best way to screenshare a single window with audio? (lemmy.kde.social)

submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Hello guys! sometimes I watch movies with friends over jitsi meet, and in order to share just a single window with just its own audio I use chromium, that has the "share tab" option. However, I'd like a more general solution (I cannot play mkv files on browser, for example). I'd like a compact way that creates a virtual device sharing the window (even if the window gets minimized or hidden behind other windows!) and its audio, without the audio of all other windows (I don't want my notification sounds to be shared too). a quick online search gave me only "complex" answers, that I'll try only if a more convenient way is not available.

[I'm running EndeavourOS KDE Wayland]

Thank to everyone in advance!

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I think the problem is not something related to jitsi, meet, discord or matrix, but rather to the OS screensharing capabilities

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Your half right. It's not really the OS's fault but rather the fault of the browsers and app-frameworks that use the browser in the background (electron). Because neither Firefox nor chrome have this feature implemented for Linux. The official Discord client doesn't do it either but other ones such as Sunroof do. It's possible that at least one Matrix client has learnt to share the screen with sound on Linux but I don't know of any (I also don't use Matrix a lot so don't pay too much attention to my experience on that)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

On KDE Plasma 6 + Firefox (both Wayland) I can share a window and workaround audio sharing by routing desktop audio to microphone. Vesktop (Discord alternative) supports screenshare w/ audio.