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How to enable wayland screen sharing on chrome browsers

Firefox (84+) supports this method by default, while on Chromium (73+) one needs to enable WebRTC PipeWire support by setting the corresponding (experimental) flag at the URL chrome://flags/#enable-webrtc-pipewire-capturer.

This requires xdg-desktop-portal and one of its backends to be installed. The available backends are:

  • xdg-desktop-portal-gnome for GNOME.
  • xdg-desktop-portal-kde for KDE.
  • xdg-desktop-portal-wlr for wlroots-based Wayland compositors (e.g. Sway, dwl)

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