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Wayland capture crashes or hangs after screen pick

Huenicorn crashes or hangs after the Wayland screen picker dialog, with a segfault in image scaling and a stuck screen-share indicator.

Tier II · Emerging Problems that are still building up.

4 public reports · first reported 12 July 2024 · last reported 11 September 2026

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What's going wrong

Users running Huenicorn on Wayland desktops such as GNOME, KDE and Hyprland report that the program dies or freezes right after they pick a screen in the portal dialog.

AI-assisted: written with the help of AI from the reports. The idea report has the full summary.

In the idea report

  • The full summary.
  • The products the 4 reports are about, and how many came each month.
  • Related problems.

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