For those of us not using Wayland, any idea if this still applies? Waiting on my flatpak version to support audio sharing with screen share... And please performance improvements.
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Is this only for wayland or does it extend to x11?
Note that the flathub version has not yet been updated. The version with the screenshare is 0.0.79.
Finally!!!
Serious question: I see the topic about Discord screen sharing a lot. Why is this such a big deal?
Aside from it being a main way that I spend time with friends, it's good to see mainstream products spend effort supporting Linux as a viable gaming platform. I have friends who haven't made the jump to Linux yet, but giving up core discord functionality was simply a dealbreaker for them.
because it's the communications platform for gamers™.
But seriously discord screenshare was a massive painpoint for gamers switching to linux, so it's very nice to see it finally, properly, solved.
people like to share their screens with friends. generally so they can stream a game for them to watch or so people can watch stuff together
Can we get actually working global keybinds in Wayland next? Or is that a chromium/electron problem?
wayland global keybinds are not really ready yet, they're only properly implemented in one desktop, so i don't blame the discord devs for not adding them.
Hyprland and kwin I think.
The hyprland dev is doing a ridiculous amount of work.
They don't work for discord in hyprland unfortunately, it only works when I have discord tabbed in (I tried passing the shortcuts in the hyprland config file)
AFAIK kde's way of doing it is kind of hacky because it was called something like "legacy global keybinds" in settings but I switched off KDE a few months ago so I don't remember the exact details.
https://wiki.hyprland.org/Configuring/Binds/#global-keybinds that's a bug then, it should be working according to the docs.
honestly if this is for push to talk, i have a mic mute toggle in my config that might honestly be better depends on wireplumber and ripgrep though. If you bind it to something and then have it run again on release you can make it a proper push to talk key for every single application.
$micmute = wpctl set-mute @DEFAULT_SOURCE@ toggle ; wpctl get-volume @DEFAULT_SOURCE@ | rg -q 'MUTED' && notify-send ' Mic Muted' -h string:x-canonical-private-synchronous:mic-state || notify-send --urgency=low ' Mic unmuted' -h string:x-canonical-private-synchronous:mic-state