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I have recently upgraded from ubuntu 20.04 LTS to ubuntu 22.04 LTS Recently I have stuck with the problem of black screen while sharing full screen on video calls be it Discord, Google meet or Zoom. I think the problem is with ubuntu 22.04 LTS I already tried multiple browsers like chrome, brave, firefox and opera for google meet.

See what I see in browser While selecting full screen

While sharing full screen

guiverc
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aman
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The new Ubuntu 22.04 uses Wayland, which for security reasons does not yet allow screen capturing on recording and a call.

Wayland should support screen capturing on Firefox by default, but since this is not working for you, then the way that I know to fix this is by changing from Wayland to Xorg (check out this post about enabling screen share on Wayland: Screen sharing with Wayland)

All you need to do is log out, press your user, press the little setting icon at the bottom left, and from Ubuntu select Ubuntu on Xorg.

Hope this worked for you and good luck!

Bruni
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Betzalel Maor
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  • Thanks it worked. Ubuntu on Xorg is working. But I'm not able to do it on wayland. Nonetheless, it would be okay for me. – aman Jun 03 '22 at 09:33
  • Is there a specific reason why you want to use Wayland? I find that Xorg works perfectly even though it doesn't have all the features Xorg has. – Betzalel Maor Jun 03 '22 at 09:36
  • I'm using Xorg now because it worked. Just letting you that the link you shared for wayland didn't work for me – aman Jun 03 '22 at 10:06
  • little note here for someone: swtiching to xorg from wayland on ubuntu22.04 causing loosing focus on dialog windows. Focus remains underneath in dialog calle, which is super anoying, – Dutch77 Mar 07 '23 at 07:45