FireDragon screen sharing in Gnome & Wayland

Issues & Assistance FireDragon
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Hi,

I do love FireDragon, but for some reason it hardly ever shows up when I try to share a window using MS Teams (Running Gnome 41.5 & Wayland). The "Share Desktop" option doesn't work at all (I guess MS is to blame there) but I wonder why applications like Insomnia and Slack do show up as shareable windows, whilst FireDragon is almost always ignored. Perhaps I should install default Firefox and see if it happens there as well, but any help is welcome.

Cheers, Guybrush.

My garuda-inxi output is as follows:

System:
  Kernel: 5.16.16-zen1-1-zen arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 11.2.0
    parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/@/boot/vmlinuz-linux-zen
    root=UUID=ebf18c3c-ec20-4291-80ca-6085bffab6ef rw rootflags=subvol=@
    quiet
    cryptdevice=UUID=b13af6c4-7d02-451f-aa1f-ec91a3e2bc85:luks-b13af6c4-7d02-451f-aa1f-ec91a3e2bc85
    root=/dev/mapper/luks-b13af6c4-7d02-451f-aa1f-ec91a3e2bc85 splash
    rd.udev.log_priority=3 vt.global_cursor_default=0
    systemd.unified_cgroup_hierarchy=1 loglevel=3
  Desktop: GNOME v: 41.5 tk: GTK v: 3.24.33 wm: gnome-shell dm: GDM v: 41.3
    Distro: Garuda Linux base: Arch Linux
Machine:
  Type: Laptop System: HP
    product: HP ZBook Studio 15.6 inch G8 Mobile Workstation PC v: N/A
    serial: <superuser required> Chassis: type: 10
    serial: <superuser required>
  Mobo: HP model: 8873 v: KBC Version 53.18.00 serial: <superuser required>
    UEFI: HP v: T92 Ver. 01.01.08 date: 07/07/2021
Battery:
  ID-1: BAT0 charge: 79.7 Wh (100.0%) condition: 79.7/83.2 Wh (95.8%)
    volts: 13.2 min: 11.6 model: Hewlett-Packard Primary type: Li-ion
    serial: <filter> status: full cycles: 38
CPU:
  Info: model: 11th Gen Intel Core i7-11850H bits: 64 type: MT MCP
    arch: Tiger Lake family: 6 model-id: 0x8D (141) stepping: 1 microcode: 0x3C
  Topology: cpus: 1x cores: 8 tpc: 2 threads: 16 smt: enabled cache:
    L1: 640 KiB desc: d-8x48 KiB; i-8x32 KiB L2: 10 MiB desc: 8x1.2 MiB
    L3: 24 MiB desc: 1x24 MiB
  Speed (MHz): avg: 2333 high: 4115 min/max: 800/4800 scaling:
    driver: intel_pstate governor: performance cores: 1: 2802 2: 909 3: 1490
    4: 3340 5: 3140 6: 983 7: 2589 8: 1798 9: 3294 10: 801 11: 2299 12: 2181
    13: 2121 14: 3136 15: 2331 16: 4115 bogomips: 79872
  Flags: avx avx2 ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx
  Vulnerabilities:
  Type: itlb_multihit status: Not affected
  Type: l1tf status: Not affected
  Type: mds status: Not affected
  Type: meltdown status: Not affected
  Type: spec_store_bypass
    mitigation: Speculative Store Bypass disabled via prctl
  Type: spectre_v1
    mitigation: usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer sanitization
  Type: spectre_v2
    mitigation: Enhanced IBRS, IBPB: conditional, RSB filling
  Type: srbds status: Not affected
  Type: tsx_async_abort status: Not affected
Graphics:
  Device-1: Intel TigerLake-H GT1 [UHD Graphics] vendor: Hewlett-Packard
    driver: i915 v: kernel ports: active: DP-4,DP-5 off: eDP-1
    empty: DP-1, DP-2, DP-3, DP-6, HDMI-A-1 bus-ID: 00:02.0
    chip-ID: 8086:9a60 class-ID: 0300
  Device-2: NVIDIA GA104M [GeForce RTX 3070 Mobile / Max-Q] driver: N/A
    alternate: nouveau, nvidia_drm, nvidia pcie: speed: Unknown lanes: 63
    link-max: gen: 6 speed: 64 GT/s bus-ID: 01:00.0 chip-ID: 10de:249d
    class-ID: 0300
  Device-3: Quanta HP HD Camera type: USB driver: uvcvideo bus-ID: 3-7:3
    chip-ID: 0408:5441 class-ID: fe01 serial: <filter>
  Device-4: Logitech StreamCam type: USB
    driver: hid-generic,snd-usb-audio,usbhid,uvcvideo bus-ID: 3-9.4.2:11
    chip-ID: 046d:0893 class-ID: 0300 serial: <filter>
  Display: wayland server: X.org v: 1.21.1.3 with: Xwayland v: 22.1.0
    compositor: gnome-shell driver: X: loaded: modesetting,nvidia gpu: i915
    display-ID: 0
  Monitor-1: DP-4 model: Acer VG270 serial: <filter> built: 2019
    res: 1920x1080 dpi: 82 gamma: 1.2 size: 598x336mm (23.54x13.23")
    diag: 686mm (27") ratio: 16:9 modes: max: 1920x1080 min: 720x400
  Monitor-2: DP-5 model: Idek Iiyama PLX2283H-DP serial: <filter>
    built: 2018 res: 1920x1080 dpi: 102 gamma: 1.2
    size: 476x268mm (18.74x10.55") diag: 546mm (21.5") ratio: 16:9 modes:
    max: 1920x1080 min: 720x400
  Monitor-3: eDP-1 model: ChiMei InnoLux 0x153e built: 2019 res: 1920x1080
    dpi: 142 gamma: 1.2 size: 344x193mm (13.54x7.6") diag: 394mm (15.5")
    ratio: 16:9 modes: 1920x1080
  OpenGL: renderer: Mesa Intel UHD Graphics (TGL GT1) v: 4.6 Mesa 21.3.7
    direct render: Yes
Audio:
  Device-1: Intel Tiger Lake-H HD Audio vendor: Hewlett-Packard
    driver: sof-audio-pci-intel-tgl
    alternate: snd_hda_intel,snd_sof_pci_intel_tgl bus-ID: 00:1f.3
    chip-ID: 8086:43c8 class-ID: 0401
  Device-2: NVIDIA GA104 High Definition Audio driver: snd_hda_intel
    v: kernel pcie: speed: Unknown lanes: 63 link-max: gen: 6 speed: 64 GT/s
    bus-ID: 01:00.1 chip-ID: 10de:228b class-ID: 0403
  Device-3: Corsair VIRTUOSO SE Wireless Gaming Headset type: USB
    driver: hid-generic,snd-usb-audio,usbhid bus-ID: 3-4:17 chip-ID: 1b1c:0a40
    class-ID: 0300 serial: <filter>
  Device-4: Logitech StreamCam type: USB
    driver: hid-generic,snd-usb-audio,usbhid,uvcvideo bus-ID: 3-9.4.2:11
    chip-ID: 046d:0893 class-ID: 0300 serial: <filter>
  Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k5.16.16-zen1-1-zen running: yes
  Sound Server-2: PulseAudio v: 15.0 running: no
  Sound Server-3: PipeWire v: 0.3.48 running: yes
Network:
  Device-1: Intel Tiger Lake PCH CNVi WiFi driver: iwlwifi v: kernel
    bus-ID: 00:14.3 chip-ID: 8086:43f0 class-ID: 0280
  IF: wlp0s20f3 state: up mac: <filter>
  Device-2: Realtek RTL8153 Gigabit Ethernet Adapter type: USB
    driver: r8152 bus-ID: 2-1.1:4 chip-ID: 0bda:8153 class-ID: 0000
    serial: <filter>
  IF: enp0s13f0u1u1 state: down mac: <filter>
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 953.87 GiB used: 61.85 GiB (6.5%)
  SMART Message: Required tool smartctl not installed. Check --recommends
  ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 maj-min: 259:0 vendor: KIOXIA model: N/A
    size: 953.87 GiB block-size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B
    speed: 31.6 Gb/s lanes: 4 type: SSD serial: <filter> rev: AGHA4101
    temp: 53.9 C scheme: GPT
Partition:
  ID-1: / raw-size: 953.57 GiB size: 953.57 GiB (100.00%)
    used: 61.85 GiB (6.5%) fs: btrfs dev: /dev/dm-0 maj-min: 254:0
    mapped: luks-b13af6c4-7d02-451f-aa1f-ec91a3e2bc85
  ID-2: /boot/efi raw-size: 300 MiB size: 299.4 MiB (99.80%)
    used: 720 KiB (0.2%) fs: vfat dev: /dev/nvme0n1p1 maj-min: 259:1
  ID-3: /home raw-size: 953.57 GiB size: 953.57 GiB (100.00%)
    used: 61.85 GiB (6.5%) fs: btrfs dev: /dev/dm-0 maj-min: 254:0
    mapped: luks-b13af6c4-7d02-451f-aa1f-ec91a3e2bc85
  ID-4: /var/log raw-size: 953.57 GiB size: 953.57 GiB (100.00%)
    used: 61.85 GiB (6.5%) fs: btrfs dev: /dev/dm-0 maj-min: 254:0
    mapped: luks-b13af6c4-7d02-451f-aa1f-ec91a3e2bc85
  ID-5: /var/tmp raw-size: 953.57 GiB size: 953.57 GiB (100.00%)
    used: 61.85 GiB (6.5%) fs: btrfs dev: /dev/dm-0 maj-min: 254:0
    mapped: luks-b13af6c4-7d02-451f-aa1f-ec91a3e2bc85
Swap:
  Kernel: swappiness: 133 (default 60) cache-pressure: 100 (default)
  ID-1: swap-1 type: zram size: 31.02 GiB used: 4.8 MiB (0.0%)
    priority: 100 dev: /dev/zram0
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 60.0 C mobo: 25.0 C
  Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A
Info:
  Processes: 425 Uptime: 4h 59m wakeups: 1 Memory: 31.02 GiB
  used: 15.07 GiB (48.6%) Init: systemd v: 250 tool: systemctl Compilers:
  gcc: 11.2.0 clang: 13.0.1 Packages: note: see --pkg pacman: 1413 lib: 358
  Shell: fish v: 3.3.1 running-in: gnome-terminal inxi: 3.3.14
Garuda (2.5.6-2):
  System install date:     2021-11-10
  Last full system update: 2022-03-28
  Is partially upgraded:   No
  Relevant software:       NetworkManager
  Windows dual boot:       No/Undetected
  Snapshots:               Snapper
  Failed units:
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I would certainly test with another browser, default Firefox would be the closest (although Librewolf is even closer).

I noticed that when there is a dialog window opened it seems Teams ignores the entire application, so make sure you only got only ONE Firedragon window open to begin with.

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Are these running in Wayland or Xwayland?

I guess my follow-up question would be if you run the browser in Xwayland does it make a difference?

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Sorry to keep you waiting. Using Xwayland doesn't seem to make a difference (in this regard). The Firefox window gets ignored as well, so at least I know now that FireDragon is not to blame. It would be nice if Team would support full blown screen sharing through Wayland, but I wonder how long it will take. :hourglass_flowing_sand: