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Wayland and audio is fixed, but only on the canary branch for the moment, this isnt lazy either, they changed the whole screenshare flow to suit linux's permission prompts

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[–] jeena@piefed.jeena.net 27 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

I like their UX, the button doesn't say "Share screen" but "Make Selection". On Element my dad every time has such a hard time to share the screen because even though he did it already a hundred times, he presses the share screen button and then waits, without choosing which window or screen to share.

[–] Blisterexe@lemmy.zip 14 points 23 hours ago

you first click the "share screen" button, then it asks if you want to share a device, screen or window, then it shows you that screen, that summons a permission prompt tailored to what you selected recently.

I agree it's quite nice

[–] derin@lemmy.beru.co 5 points 16 hours ago (2 children)

Yay I can finally uninstall Vesktop

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[–] Mereo@lemmy.ca 16 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago) (3 children)
[–] Blisterexe@lemmy.zip 16 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

also works, although it says audio "may not work in certain instances"

[–] Mereo@lemmy.ca 4 points 22 hours ago
[–] tgxn@lemmy.tgxn.net 8 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Audio sharing works, but appears to not allow selection of a specific audio stream, when I tested it just then it appears to share system audio. Vesktop still allows you to choose a specific stream. Still, this is a huge improvement over not working at all, and the "Entire Desktop" (3 screens) works, as well as "select region" sharing!

[–] DacoTaco@lemmy.world 1 points 11 hours ago

For me audio sharing doesnt work at all haha

[–] tiramichu@lemm.ee 9 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago)
[–] sanpo@sopuli.xyz 12 points 20 hours ago (6 children)

Did they also finally fix the AFK detection on Wayland?

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[–] simonced@lemmy.one 17 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Does that works for Wayland or X? or both?
Quite nice feature indeed.

[–] Blisterexe@lemmy.zip 13 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago)

both, i mentioned that in the body text

[–] Tywele@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 14 hours ago

Great! Now I just need global shortcuts.

[–] simple@lemm.ee 15 points 22 hours ago

Oh my god, it's happening!

[–] devfuuu@lemmy.world 9 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago)

Finally. I had it working after a bunch of workarounds recently, but it was not really stable.

Always remember, this is what we all deserve for using closed source apps.

[–] ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net 10 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago)

Oh sweet jesus, it's finally happening! Huzzah! Rejoice!

[–] adrianhooves@sopuli.xyz 3 points 21 hours ago (2 children)

i don't use it because my laptop is a toshiba from 2006 i think and it runs xubuntu which is pretty cool!! but discord runs a little bit slow so sadly no screensharing and anyway for most of my friends i use email to talk to them

[–] Blisterexe@lemmy.zip 4 points 21 hours ago (3 children)

you might be interested in matrix, it's like discord, but you have the option of using a super lightwheight client

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[–] tekato@lemmy.world 2 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Do you really talk to your friends through email?

[–] darklamer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Voice recordings as email attachments, easy-peasy.

[–] TheDrink@hexbear.net 3 points 21 hours ago

Wayland and audio is fixed, but only on the canary branch

I've been using the canary branch exclusively for about a year because of audio issues on the main one, I would genuinely be ecstatic if they finally ported over the fix because for some reason the canary branch refuses to auto upgrade and I have to do it manually every time.

[–] camr_on@lemmy.world 3 points 22 hours ago
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