[Bug]: Unwanted xdg-desktop-portal screen sharing dialog on startup (Wayland, Electron 39)

[johanruizb]

Does this issue occur when all extensions are disabled?: Yes/No
Yes

• VS Code Version: Code - Insiders 1.122.0-insider (Electron 39.8.8)
• OS Version: Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS, GNOME + Wayland, Linux 6.17.0-29-generic

Steps to Reproduce:

1. Launch VS Code Insiders on Wayland (GNOME, Ubuntu 24.04)
2. Wait for the main window to load — no further action needed

Expected: VS Code starts normally without any system dialogs.

Actual: The xdg-desktop-portal screen sharing dialog immediately appears: "Screen Sharing — org.chromium.Chromium wants to share your screen. Choose what to share."

Journal evidence:

code-insiders.desktop: ERROR:screencast_portal.cc:369 Failed to start the screen cast session.
code-insiders.desktop: ERROR:base_capturer_pipewire.cc:93 ScreenCastPortal failed: 2
xdg-desktop-por: Failed to associate portal window with parent window
xdg-desktop-portal-gnome.service: Main process exited, code=dumped, status=11/SEGV

Additional notes:

• Happens with --disable-extensions, empty profile (--user-data-dir /tmp/vscode-empty), and no MCP servers
• WEBRTC_PIPEWIRE_PORTAL_DISABLE=1 has no effect
• --ozone-platform-hint=x11 does not fix it either
• The GNOME portal implementation crashes with SEGV when handling the request

[pdanpdan]

Same happens on PopOS 24.04 (wayland)
Started with the insiders build from 20.05.2026
Seems to be the same as #317948

[akarray]

Same here for this configuration :
Linux 7.0.9-arch1-1
Hyprland 0.55.2 (Wayland)

It seem a low level problem coming with the latest vs code insider version. The only workaround I found is to run VS Code Insiders via XWayland instead of native Wayland.

[nwkyz]

Same on ubuntu26.04, GNOME50, Linux 7.0.0-15, wayland. running under XWayland has no problem.

[tmjbios]

Same here; Fedora 44

[indranildeveloper]

Same here: Cachy OS with KDE Plasma with Wayland.