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Wayland and audio is fixed, but only on the canary branch for the moment, this isnt lazy either, they changed the whole screenshare flow to suit linux's permission prompts
Still ass, use matrix/element
I've been using Vesktop since forever. They have had it working already for a looooong time.
Fuck discord. Proprietary spyware. That shit isn't getting on my computer anytime ever.
FYI, Element now has a lot of the call features that Discord has
Including screen share with audio?
Been using matrix since forever :) But the dissing of shitty corporate centralized applications is necessary because way too many naive users still give their data away for convenience.
in the case of discord, it's not convenience, it's the network effect.
Facts, I just left discord and joined groups in matrix, and had some close associates get matrix/element to chat w me. Easy peasy
Don't use discord it's like reddit
What's a similar alternative?
element
At least you can still read some of reddit without an account.
readme.md
Join our discord
That forwards to a shadily different URL.
Why does Boost turn that into a clickable link in the first place..?
people on reddit are saying audio-sharing is still broken for every app that utilizes the pipewire audio API directly
Which programs use the pipewire API? I can only think of mumble but no one is going to stream that.
i think bitwig is one
MPV also supports pipewire.
Whish Steam would put some effort into this too.
I would love for Valve to make an alternative to Discord, built into Steam.
Matrix really is the answer.
Matrix doesn't have voice channels, probably the most important part of Discord for everyone I know. It's also built around single rooms, not servers, which just doesn't feel as good as Discord for interacting with friends.
Same. Atm it works well for basic voice chat but not much more.
Try using OBS with its virtual camera.
I've been using that for ages to share my screen, but it doesn't bring over the audio which can be annoying, but otherwise works great. I am sure there are ways to get the audio into it, but it felt like it would be more trouble than it was worth.
You can stream the audio using PulseAudio volume control. (pavucontrol)
Click in the Recording tab, find the discord input (it should be called WebRTC engine or something similar) and select the audio device you want to use.
To stream audio from your computer, just click the 'monitor' version of the device you want to use.
it's horribly out of sync with the screenshare and low quality
Really? I don't have that issue. Are you also using OBS? It's possible your stream is lagging due to hardware restraints.
Note that the flathub version has not yet been updated. The version with the screenshare is 0.0.79.
For those of us not using Wayland, any idea if this still applies? Waiting on my flatpak version to support audio sharing with screen share... And please performance improvements.
it (mostly) fixes audio on x11 too
Finally!!!
Can we get actually working global keybinds in Wayland next? Or is that a chromium/electron problem?
It's an Electron problem, yes. The API is there, just waiting to be used.
wayland global keybinds are not really ready yet, they're only properly implemented in one desktop, so i don't blame the discord devs for not adding them.
Hyprland and kwin I think.
The hyprland dev is doing a ridiculous amount of work.
Surprised he finds time to work on anything after spending so much of it being a complete dipshit online or falsely pinning his own bugs on other projects. Good for him.
So doing what every single developer does, got it.
Everyone is teflon
i don't think every developer hosts an actively transphobic discord full of dogpiling channers but i might be wrong on this one bestie
didn't hyprland implement it wrong by making apps unable to add new global shortcuts themselves, or even request to add them?
No, I don't think it's wrong for it to be specified in the config files for hyprlands purposes, that's standard tiling window manager stuff
They don't work for discord in hyprland unfortunately, it only works when I have discord tabbed in (I tried passing the shortcuts in the hyprland config file)
AFAIK kde's way of doing it is kind of hacky because it was called something like "legacy global keybinds" in settings but I switched off KDE a few months ago so I don't remember the exact details.
https://wiki.hyprland.org/Configuring/Binds/#global-keybinds that's a bug then, it should be working according to the docs.
honestly if this is for push to talk, i have a mic mute toggle in my config that might honestly be better depends on wireplumber and ripgrep though. If you bind it to something and then have it run again on release you can make it a proper push to talk key for every single application.
$micmute = wpctl set-mute @DEFAULT_SOURCE@ toggle ; wpctl get-volume @DEFAULT_SOURCE@ | rg -q 'MUTED' && notify-send ' Mic Muted' -h string:x-canonical-private-synchronous:mic-state || notify-send --urgency=low ' Mic unmuted' -h string:x-canonical-private-synchronous:mic-state
Is this only for wayland or does it extend to x11?
video worked on x11 before, audio working is new to both
Not entirely, there is an issue with sharing when you have multiple monitors. If you try to share a monitor, it shares all monitors stitched together