Fedora 43 Workstation (Wayland, GNOME) - Flatpak `com.google.Chrome` does not detect any cameras

[ylohnitram]

Summary

On Fedora 43 Workstation (Wayland, GNOME), the Flatpak com.google.Chrome does not detect any cameras. The "Camera" settings page (chrome://settings/content/camera) shows no "Default camera" dropdown at all, and Google Meet reports "Camera not found".

At the same time:

• The built-in webcam (Intel IPU6) works in native apps (Cheese, guvcview).
• The webcam also works in Firefox (rpm), using PipeWire + xdg-desktop-portal.
• PipeWire, WirePlumber and xdg-desktop-portal services are all running in the user session.

This looks like a Chrome Flatpak + portal integration issue, not a kernel or libcamera problem.

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System details

• Distro: Fedora 43 Workstation (up to date)
• Desktop: GNOME, Wayland session
• Hardware: Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon Gen 11 (Intel IPU6 camera)
• Kernel: 6.17.12-300.fc43.x86_64
• Chrome Flatpak: com.google.Chrome (from Flathub, latest stable)
• libcamera: libcamera-0.5.2-4.fc43.x86_64
• PipeWire: Fedora 43 defaults
• SELinux: Enforcing

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Expected behavior

• chrome://settings/content/camera shows a "Default camera" dropdown with at least one camera (e.g. "Integrated Camera").
• Google Meet can select and use the webcam, like Firefox and Cheese do.

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Actual behavior

• chrome://settings/content/camera shows only the "Sites can ask to use your camera" / "Don't allow" radio buttons, no camera dropdown at the top.
• Google Meet shows "Camera not found".
• This happens even though the webcam works fine in:
  • cheese
  • guvcview
  • Firefox (rpm) with WebRTC sites.

Screenshot of Chrome camera settings (no dropdown):

(attach your screenshot here)

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Flatpak permissions

$ flatpak info --show-permissions com.google.Chrome

[Context]
shared=network;ipc;
sockets=x11;wayland;pulseaudio;pcsc;cups;
devices=all;
filesystems=host-etc;/.config/kioslaverc;xdg-music;xdg-pictures;xdg-videos;/run/.heim_org.h5l.kcm-socket;/.config/dconf:ro;xdg-download;xdg-run/dconf;xdg-documents;xdg-run/pipewire-0;

[Session Bus Policy]
org.freedesktop.Notifications=talk
org.freedesktop.FileManager1=talk
org.mpris.MediaPlayer2.chromium.*=own
org.kde.StatusNotifierWatcher=talk
org.freedesktop.ScreenSaver=talk
org.freedesktop.secrets=talk
ca.desrt.dconf=talk
org.gnome.SessionManager=talk

[System Bus Policy]
org.freedesktop.Avahi=talk
org.freedesktop.UPower=talk
org.bluez=talk

[Environment]
GSETTINGS_BACKEND=dconf
GIO_EXTRA_MODULES=/app/lib/gio/modules
GTK_PATH=/app/lib/gtkmodules
DCONF_USER_CONFIG_DIR=.config/dconf

So Chrome Flatpak has devices=all and access to the PipeWire socket.

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PipeWire and portal status

In the GNOME session:
$ systemctl --user status pipewire wireplumber xdg-desktop-portal xdg-desktop-portal-gnome --no-pager

● pipewire.service - PipeWire Multimedia Service
Active: active (running)
...
● wireplumber.service - Multimedia Service Session Manager
Active: active (running)
...
● xdg-desktop-portal.service - Portal service
Active: active (running)
...
● xdg-desktop-portal-gnome.service - Portal service (GNOME implementation)
Active: active (running)
...

Firefox uses the same portal setup and can access the webcam without issues (camera appears in Firefox permissions and in WebRTC tests).

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Camera works in native apps

$ ls /dev/video*
/dev/video0 ... /dev/video31

$ v4l2-ctl --list-devices
ipu6 (PCI:0000:00:05.0):
/dev/video0
...
/dev/video31

$ cheese

shows video from the built-in webcam
$ firefox https://meet.google.com/new

Meet sees the camera and shows preview

What I tried

• Ensured PipeWire, WirePlumber and xdg-desktop-portal services are running.
• Removed any Flatpak camera permissions and re-ran Chrome:

flatpak permission-remove devices camera com.google.Chrome
flatpak override --user --device=all com.google.Chrome

• Restarted user services:
  systemctl --user restart pipewire wireplumber xdg-desktop-portal xdg-desktop-portal-gnome

• Reinstalled Chrome Flatpak and removed Chrome rpm to avoid conflicts.

• Tested with and without --enable-features=WebRTCPipeWireCapturer.

Behavior stays the same: no camera dropdown in Chrome, "Camera not found" in Meet, while Firefox and Cheese work.

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Questions

• Is there any known issue with com.google.Chrome Flatpak and camera portal on Fedora 43 / IPU6 hardware?
• Is there any additional permission / env var needed for Chrome Flatpak to see PipeWire cameras?
• How can I debug Chrome's interaction with org.freedesktop.portal.Camera from the Flatpak sandbox?

Thanks!

[pfanzola]

for me on Bluefin (fedora 43 silverblue) on chrome flatpak it works quite well (tried on google meet)