{"id":4691,"date":"2022-09-06T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-09-06T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.foell.org\/justin\/?p=4691"},"modified":"2022-11-28T08:48:41","modified_gmt":"2022-11-28T14:48:41","slug":"remove-etc-pipewire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.foell.org\/justin\/remove-etc-pipewire\/","title":{"rendered":"Remove \/etc\/pipewire"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Holy \ud83d\udca9 y’all – I just spent two weeks not being able to share my screen on Ubuntu. It started with a regular system update that I think<\/em> updated Wayland. I noticed that my fonts in certain applications looked sharper – likely meaning that the 4k scaling was working better. Then I noticed that zoom wouldn’t share the whole screen, it would just share a portion. \ud83d\ude29<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To be clear about my setup, I was running Ubuntu 20.04 LTS with a dual monitor setup. I had been using Wayland<\/a> because my XPS built-in screen is 4k and my external is standard HD (1080p).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As luck would have it, Ubuntu 22.04 LTS was recently in my update queue, and I figured it couldn’t get much worse. So I upgraded, but (womp womp) it didn’t help. <\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Now zoom wouldn’t show a normal screen sharing option, but it had a new “System Capture” selection.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The system capture selection would bring up another new prompt:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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But after I clicked “Share” nothing would happen. People on the other end would just see a black screen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

PipeWire Debugging<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

After some research it seems that the new sharing subsystem for Wayland is called PipeWire. In my quest to debug it end-to-end I found this handy guide for debugging screen sharing in Wayland, the “It doesn’t work” Troubleshooting Checklist.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of the steps is to check the pipewire service itself:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

systemctl --user status pipewire<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n
And mine was up-and-running but was returning this warning in yellow:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
no modules loaded<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n
That led me to this post: https:\/\/www.linuxquestions.org\/questions\/slackware-14\/using-pipewire-instead-of-pulseaudio-in-slackware-15-a-4175693980\/page9.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n
Yes it was for a different distro (Slackware) but one of the pieces of advice seemed sound:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Long story short, remove every little file from <\/em>\/etc\/pipewire<\/strong> if exists and reboot the system.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
I’m not sure why the folder was there with an old config file in it. Likely from when I was on 20.04 and tried upgrading PipeWire to try to fix zoom (which didn’t work).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I deleted that folder (actually moved it to a temporary place first), rebooted and it did the trick. Screen sharing is back on! Good thing because my job depends on it \ud83d\udcaa<\/p>\n
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