Google chrome screen share issue on fedora workstation 29

Google chrome screen share problem on fedora workstation 29

Not able to share screen on google chrome browser on fedora workstation 29.

Let us see how to resolve the issue checking waylan feature on fedora 29,

wayland feature on fedora

Wayland is a secure display protocolthat enables communication between your video hardware and applications.

It focuses on GNOME mainly because GNOME is the default desktop on Fedora Workstation, but features may need to done in different levels and not necessarily part of GNOME.

Let us check currently running session number and other informations using loginctl command.

$ loginctl
SESSION  UID USER     SEAT  TTY 
      2 1000 testuser seat0 tty2

1 sessions listed.

Check type of session using session number,

$ loginctl show-session 2 -p Type
Type=wayland

Check GDM config file,

$ cat /etc/gdm/custom.conf # GDM configuration storage [daemon] # Uncomment the line below to force the login screen to use Xorg #WaylandEnable=false [security] [xdmcp] [chooser] [debug] # Uncomment the line below to turn on debugging #Enable=true

Now update tje GDM config file '/etc/gdm/custom.conf' daemon part as below,

[daemon]
# Uncomment the line below to force the login screen to use Xorg
WaylandEnable=false
DefaultSession=gnome-xorg.desktop

GDM config file looks like below once added above changes,

$ cat /etc/gdm/custom.conf
# GDM configuration storage

[daemon]
# Uncomment the line below to force the login screen to use Xorg
WaylandEnable=false
DefaultSession=gnome-xorg.desktop

[security]

[xdmcp]

[chooser]

[debug]
# Uncomment the line below to turn on debugging
#Enable=true

Check session details,

$ loginctl show-session 2
Id=2
User=1000
Name=testuser
Timestamp=Fri 2019-11-22 00:15:12 IST
TimestampMonotonic=57977806
VTNr=2
Seat=seat0
TTY=tty2
Remote=no
Service=gdm-password
Scope=session-2.scope
Leader=2009
Audit=2
Type=x11
Class=user
Active=yes
State=active
IdleHint=no
IdleSinceHint=0
IdleSinceHintMonotonic=0
LockedHint=no

Now check session type and should be x11,

$ loginctl show-session 2 -p Type
Type=x11

$ loginctl
SESSION  UID USER     SEAT  TTY 
      2 1000 testuser seat0 tty2
     c1   42 gdm      seat0 tty1

2 sessions listed.

$ loginctl show-session c1 -p Type
Type=x11

Hope this changes should help resolving the google chrome screen sharing issue on fedora workstation.

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