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Jan Grulich
Personal blog · jgrulich.czprogrammingsystemsweb
Jan Grulich's personal blog at jgrulich.cz covers programming, systems and web. Since 2017, 9 different Hacker News readers have linked it 12 times, most often “WebRTC (Chromium): Year end report”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2024-12-13, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Jan Grulich's blog covers Linux desktop topics such as Wayland screen sharing, PipeWire setup, and Firefox hardware acceleration. HN commenters cite it for practical how-to steps and as background on the Wayland ecosystem.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- WebRTC (Chromium): Year end report2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-11-22
- /2018/07/04/how-to-enable-and-use-screen-sharing-on-wayland/2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-01-29
- WebRTC: Journey to make Wayland screen sharing enabled by default2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-02-16
What Hacker News says?
Exactly nothing changed last month, because it works for quite some time. See https://jgrulich.cz/2018/07/02/screen-sharing-support-in-web... and https://jgrulich.cz/2018/07/04/how-to-enable-and-use-screen-... and https://twitter.com/tomaspopela/status/1105740090784006144 . Also we are currently working on some improvements to improve the UX - https://chromium-review.googlesource.com/c/chromium/src/+/19...
Comment linking /2018/07/04/how-to-enable-and-use-screen-sharing-on-wayland/
on “Firefox 75 on Wayland now to have full WebGL, working VA-API acceleration”Submitted WebRTC: Journey to make Wayland screen sharing enabled by default as a story · 10 points
HN discussionTL;DR: make sure you have pipewire and xdg-desktop-portal installed, look up how to enable pipewire for your browser. It might help. Well, this blog post barely scratches the surface. The Linux userspace display stack is currently undergoing a big overhaul, following the changes that happened in the kernel a few years ago (DRI3, KMS, atomic modesetting, etc). All of this made Wayland possible. That, plus the fact th…
Comment linking /2018/07/04/how-to-enable-and-use-screen-sharing-on-wayland/
on “The sad state of screen sharing on desktop Linux”Submitted WebRTC: Journey to make Wayland screen sharing enabled by default as a story · 4 points
HN discussionThis is a valid and level-headed analysis. The good news is that this is not unfixable; there is a venue and a governance organization to standardize the protocols and compositor interoperability that is needed. And there has been notable progress. Specifically when it comes to screen share / remote desktop, standardization of the API to invoke sharing is happening by way of the XDG portal API efforts. There is acti…
Comment linking /2022/11/21/webrtc-chromium-year-end-report/
on “Wayland Protocol Finally Ready for Fractional Scaling”Submitted When Your Webcam Doesn't Work: Solving Firefox and PipeWire Issues as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted WebRTC (Chromium): Year end report as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted DMA-BUF Support in WebRTC as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Gnome Integration for Qt Based Applications in Flatpak – Jan Grulich as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Screen Sharing support in WebRTC for Wayland sessions as a story · 1 points
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