mattermost-plugin-jitsi: Unable to share screen when using Jitsi embedded in desktop app
When using Jitsi in desktop, the app is unable to find any screens to share. The app just continues to show a spinner while looking for desktops or apps to share. This only repros when using Jisti embed into desktop with Embed Jitsi video inside Mattermost
I reproduced this on the latest desktop release v4.5.0 on Windows 10 and Mac OS
Steps:
- Setup Jisti
- Enable
Embed Jitsi video inside Mattermost
- Connect to server from desktop
- Join a meeting
- Attempt to share your screen
- Wait for several minutes
Observed:
About this issue
- Original URL
- State: open
- Created 4 years ago
- Reactions: 1
- Comments: 25 (9 by maintainers)
Tracked here: https://mattermost.atlassian.net/browse/MM-27253
we are currently working on a major architectural change on the desktop to allow native modules, which will make possible to add https://github.com/jitsi/jitsi-meet-electron which might help with the jitsi experience
So the linked Atlassian issue has been closed with “Don’t see any immediate need for this”. OK, here is my pitch for why this should be fixed in the nearish future: This is one of the things that makes Mattermost appear not competitive to Microsoft Teams. I know, I know, users can just open the meeting in their browser, but guess what, most users want stuff to just work, they don’t like meetings in their browser, because there are all sorts of things that broswers do that break meetings (like bad audio device permissions). Users want to be able to start a meeting from a chat channel and share their screen, just like they can in Teams. This bug makes it very hard for me to advocate convincingly for our continued use of both Mattermost and Jitsi. As a better than nothing solution, is there a way to have the plugin launch meetings in the Jitsi desktop app, instead of the browser?
OK, thank’s for the update.
That is failing for me in Linux too in desktop 4.4.0/Linux