Screen Sharing on Wayland (Hyprland) with Chromium Browsers (Brave, Chrome, Chromium, etc.)

Last updated Oct 7, 2025 by Simon Späti

This is the solution to avoid double prompt when screen sharing on Linux with Wayland. This works for Google Meet, Zoom, Teams and other that run in the browser.

# What happens: The Problem

When I screen share on Arch Linux with Omarchy I always get the system prompt twice:
and then after I choose this i get this windows:
When I click “share”, the dialog at number 2. will appeach again.

I learned that it does not matter, what I choose in 2. it does not matter. Only what I choose in the second time.

Also, windows (applications) such as Obsidian work as well. BUT remember to choose in the second pick!! (3.)

# Work arounds

I found, that when I choose Allow a restore token - it will remember my first choice and I only need to choose once. But again, then I need to always remember to click the allow a restore token:

# Permanent Solution

Make it permanent:

Create file or add in ~/.config/hypr/xdph.conf :

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screencopy {
allow_token_by_default = true
}  

and reboot. This will automatically tick the checkbox next time and allow you to only choose once:

Check also the Hyprland Wiki. This solutions was found on Reddit.

Next fix to solve would be to rename the default names - whenever I have an external monitor set, I don’t immediately know which screen is which. Would be nice if we could rename screen 0 and 1 to internal monitor and external or similar, no? Anyone know how?