Hide this "XWayland recording gateway" window
megatux opened this issue · 8 comments
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In my Nobara Gnome with PaperWM, there is an extra "window" for something called XWayland Video Recording gateway (translated, could be a bit diff. the name in English). Attached screenshot. I see the program name when using the alt-tab switcher.
Describe the solution you'd like
Ideally, this process/window should be invisible, omitted in alt-tab or some way to add in a hide-list.
Additional context
Thanks!
Hmmm - haven't heard or seen that one before. Unfortunately that screenshot isn't much help - I can't see the window (is it the whitespace in the middle?).
Generally for this type of thing we'd add it to PaperWM winprops and set it as a scratch window. However you'd need to know the window class or title to have it detected:
https://github.com/paperwm/PaperWM?tab=readme-ov-file#setting-window-specific-properties
Are you able to create a short video showing the window (e.g. in atl-tab)?
Do you think it's this?
Okay, yep, I think that was it. Please add this to your winprops settings:
Then you might need to logout / login again (or restart). Basically, we need to kill xwaylandvideobridge and have it start again.
Unless you really need xwaylandvideobridge I would suggest you uninstall it. It still leaves a weird faint whiteline in the upper left corner of my monitor (even in vanilla gnome without PaperWM installed).
Unless you really need
xwaylandvideobridgeI would suggest you uninstall it. It still leaves a weird faint whiteline in the upper left corner of my monitor (even in vanilla gnome without PaperWM installed).
See this bug report (yes, it's xwaylandvideobridge): https://www.mail-archive.com/kde-bugs-dist@kde.org/msg856240.html
P.S. do you also have / use KDE?
Cool, I added the Winprop wm_class, will re-login later, after work, and recheck.
Yes, I also installed KDE desktop some days ago.
Distribution: Nobara Linux 39 (GNOME Edition)
GNOME Shell: 45.5
Display server: Wayland
PaperWM version: 46.13.1
Enabled extensions:
- clipboard-indicator@tudmotu.com
- paperwm@paperwm.github.com
- dash-to-dock@micxgx.gmail.com
- just-perfection-desktop@just-perfection
- user-theme@gnome-shell-extensions.gcampax.github.com
- window-list@gnome-shell-extensions.gcampax.github.com
Adding another shot, of the issue with the window-list switcher, just in case:
Thanks a lot for PaperWM, I really like it and wanted to try this concept since I saw that original concept some time ago. Also tried Niri compositor, it's nice but still immature.
No probs. So, AFAIK, this is a KDE application that causes issues in GNOME, and not just in PaperWM. I don't think this is needed for GNOME (and especially GNOME wayland):
- https://www.mail-archive.com/kde-bugs-dist@kde.org/msg856240.html
- https://www.reddit.com/r/Fedora/comments/18ec7mm/recently_installed_kde_and_a_white_line_appeared/
- https://www.reddit.com/r/NobaraProject/comments/1bu0d9j/xwayland_video_bridge_issue/
In GNOME I would suggest closing/killing this process (or stopping it from starting).
Will close this issue now.
Adding the winprop worked perfectly. Thanks again.