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My biggest problem Wayland, is no screensharing. (i.e. casting on Chromecast, sharing screen on zoom). Apparently this because of security. Is this possible to overcome? Is this something can fixed by simply having chromecast/zoom devs implement something? Or will it never be possible?

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Good news actually, it's already being worked on. As mentioned, Pipewire is the current leading solution. Upstream WebRTC has experimental support for Pipewire; in Chromium it can be enabled with a flag and in Firefox it can be enabled with a patch or configuration flag (I believe it is supposedly merged, but not sure if stable versions will compile and work with it.)

GitHub is down atm but there's also an xdg-desktop-portal implementation for wlroots which should allow for Pipewire clients to run under Sway (I have not tried this personally, so I have no idea if it actually all works in practice yet.) https://github.com/emersion/xdg-desktop-portal-wlr

Correct. All of this is working out of the box in Fedora 31 which ships Wayland by default.

It doesn't sound like it's ready (as of June): https://github.com/emersion/xdg-desktop-portal-wlr/issues/4#...

Screensharing is possible but it is not part of wayland. The compositor/DE must implement screen sharing and manage how programs are given permission to this.

Will this require both parties to be running the same compositor?

No, the other end is just receiving a video stream. Unless you are looking for something more advanced which actually renders the desktop on the remote computer which I'm not would work to well if it is even possible in X11

It is already there. I use zoom screensharing on wayland for work and it works like a charm. Better than on X11 where i always had artefacts actually.

I've been using gnome on wayland for a while now, all apps running natively but the electron based ones and it's working perfectly. I have none of the issues mentionned by the author of this post.

Take a look into pipewire.

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