Tell HN: Troubleshooting Slack Crashes during screen sharing on Wayland

• com.slack.Slack

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If you're a Linux user (like me) opted for Wayland display server, you might have encountered a frustrating crashes when you try to screen share during huddles. This issue has been a there since April 2023 release (Slack 4.31.155) for Linux and it's still not fixed till the date of submission of this post. I have tried multiple ways to make it work but in the end it still crashed.

Screen sharing is something which was very important to me as I cannot always create a google meet link for small discussions with my team. That's why we have huddle in slack.

I even tried to switch to X11 on my fedora workstation, but then I had to do the workarounds for gestures for touchpad with touchegg (sudo dnf install touchegg) and GNOME extension (https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/4033/x11-gestures/) and the results were not as smooth as they were on wayland. I always preferred wayland because of its performance and also noticed better battery life with it than X11.

After searching the web for hours, I finally found the solution on this issue tracker on github: https://github.com/flathub/com.slack.Slack/issues/196#issue-1684889894

The trick is simple, Just rollback to the version 4.29.149 with:

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