Screen share on Linux NixOS - Hyprland / Wayland is broken

[gvolpe]

Hi, I've seen a few similar posts, and have patiently waited for months to have a working solution on Wayland for screensharing, but so far it remains as broken as it was a year ago, so starting a new post to share all the relevant information.

My only workaround until now was to rely on Zoom v6.0.2.4680 and downgrade Pipewire to v1.0.7, but it sadly stopped working (zoom would not even log any error message to stdout, so I'm not sure what's going on).

The only option is to now embrace the newer versions, so I'm currently on v6.3.10.7150, which allows me to join calls but I can't share my screen at all.

I've tried the suggested "Settings->Share screen->Advanced->Screen capture mode on Wayland set to Pipewire Mode" without success. Whether I set it to Auto, Original or Pipewire Mode, I get the same error pop-up saying the following:

"Can not start screen share, choose one of the options:

- Install latest 'xdg-desktop-portal' and 'xdg-desktop-portal-hyprland'

- Switch to X11 display server

To support screen share"

The xdg-desktop-portals are already installed on their latest versions on my system, and the suggestion to switch to X11 is completely unacceptable.

Would anyone be able to look into this? As a team lead, I need to share my screen on a daily basis at work and now that the workaround no longer works, I'm completely blocked by this issue.

Note: I would happily upload a screenshot, but I wasn't allowed to do so.

[gvolpe]

Attaching a screenshot of the error now that I have permissions to upload a file.