Black screen when sharing screen in Screen, NOT running Wayland
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When I try to share my screen (using the Screen native client, running Awesome as my Xorg wm on Debian), I get a black screen (with a green sharing border; others in the session also see black). The only way to recover is to type blind, open a terminal, and kill Screen.
If I switch from an Awesome Xorg session to gnome, screen sharing works. Not sure if the issue is Wayland-related or the presence/absence of some Gnome-related service, but Screen should at least detect this pathological situation and provide a helpful error message rather than leaving us in the dark!
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J Sherwani (Pop Team)
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J Sherwani (Pop Team)
It looks like you're unable to show transparent windows, which was an issue discussed here (along with a fix): https://screen.canny.io/bugs/p/linux-xmonad-black-screen
Let me know if the solution (running a compositor) fixes it for you.
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J Sherwani (Pop Team): Running compton does indeed fix this! Would it be possible to detect the absence of a compositor and produce a helpful error message instead of a black screen?
J Sherwani (Pop Team)
pde : Good point! We'll work on this.
J Sherwani (Pop Team)
pde : This is now live in the latest update (v3.0.2), thanks for the suggestion!