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docs: document broken screensharing on wayland
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csett86 committed May 10, 2023
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- [End-to-End Encryption](https://jitsi.org/blog/e2ee/) support (BETA)
- Works with any Jitsi Meet deployment
- Builtin auto-updates
- Screensharing (Windows, Mac, X11 only. Not supported under Wayland, see known issues below)
- ~Remote control~ (currently [disabled](https://github.com/jitsi/jitsi-meet-electron/issues/483) due to [security issues](https://github.com/jitsi/security-advisories/blob/master/advisories/JSA-2020-0001.md))
- Always-On-Top window
- Support for deeplinks such as `jitsi-meet://myroom` (will open `myroom` on the configured Jitsi instance) or `jitsi-meet://jitsi.mycompany.com/myroom` (will open `myroom` on the Jitsi instance running on `jitsi.mycompany.com`)
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* If you can't execute the file directly after downloading it, try running `chmod u+x ./jitsi-meet-x86_64.AppImage`

* Under wayland, screensharing is not currently supported (due to https://github.com/electron/electron/issues/37463), and the app will crash with a segfault!

* On Ubuntu 22.04, the AppImage will fail with a fuse error (as the AppImage uses `libfuse2`, while 22.04 comes with `libfuse3` by default):

```
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sudo apt install libfuse2
```


* Under wayland, experimental native wayland support can be enabled with the command-line switch `--ozone-platform-hint` set to `auto`:

```
./jitsi-meet-x86_64.AppImage --ozone-platform-hint=auto
```

Note that screen-sharing is not currently supported under wayland, and the permissions prompt may loop endlessly.

* If you experience a blank page after jitsi server upgrades, try removing the local cache files:

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