hyprland-wiki/pages/Useful Utilities/Screen-Sharing.md

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title: Screen sharing
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Screensharing is done through PipeWire on Wayland.

## Prerequisites

Make sure you have `pipewire` and `wireplumber` installed, enabled and running
if you don't have them yet.

## Screensharing

Read
[this amazing gist by Bruno Ancona Sala](https://gist.github.com/brunoanc/2dea6ddf6974ba4e5d26c3139ffb7580)
for a great tutorial.

## Better screensharing

See [the hyprland portal page](../xdg-desktop-portal-hyprland)

## XWayland

If your screensharing application is running under XWayland (like Discord,
Skype,...), it can only see other XWayland windows and cannot share an entire
screen or a Wayland window.

The KDE-team has implemented a workaround for this called
[xwaylandvideobridge](https://invent.kde.org/system/xwaylandvideobridge). You
can use
[this AUR package](https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/xwaylandvideobridge-git)
on ArchLinux. Note that Hyprland currently doesn't support the way it tries to
hide the main window, so you will have to create some window-rules to achieve
the same effect. See
[this issue](https://invent.kde.org/system/xwaylandvideobridge/-/issues/1) for
more information. For example:

```ini
windowrulev2 = opacity 0.0 override 0.0 override,class:^(xwaylandvideobridge)$
windowrulev2 = noanim,class:^(xwaylandvideobridge)$
windowrulev2 = noinitialfocus,class:^(xwaylandvideobridge)$
windowrulev2 = maxsize 1 1,class:^(xwaylandvideobridge)$
windowrulev2 = noblur,class:^(xwaylandvideobridge)$
```