Works but no visibility on Ubuntu 22.04.03 Wayland

[Linwood-F]

Versions

• System version: Ubuntu 22.04.3 LTS (6.2.0-34-generic)
• Processor architecture: x64
• APP version: 0.7

Problem

When installed from the .deb package, it works, however it seems inaccessible on the GUI. I confirmed that:

gnome-shell-extension-appindicator/jammy,jammy,now 42-2~fakesync1 all [installed,automatic]

As well as

gir1.2-appindicator3-0.1/jammy,now 12.10.1+20.10.20200706.1-0ubuntu1 amd64 [installed]

are present. When logged in (it's an auto login if that matters) the program auto-starts (I manually put it into the autostart set) and gives this in a little popup at the top of the screen which shortly vanishes:

Macast is hidden
Running at desktop panel

It's not visible anywhere that i can find though it is running, it is as though it cannot connect to the desktop. Looking at it in PS you see:

ferguson    1485    1139  0   894  2304   3 13:21 ?        00:00:00 /bin/macast
ferguson    1780    1485  0 473147 74124  4 13:21 ?        00:00:04 /bin/macast
ferguson    1967    1780  0 171326 55424  2 13:21 ?        00:00:00 mpv --input-ipc-server=/tmp/macast_mpvsocket2734 --image-display-duration=inf --idle=yes --no-terminal --on-all-workspaces --hwdec=yes --save-position-on-quit=yes --script-opts=osc-timetotal=yes,osc-layout=bottombar,osc-title=${title},osc-showwindowed=yes,osc-seekbarstyle=bar,osc-visibility=auto --ontop --geometry=98%:5% --autofit=20%

The file .config/Macast/macast_setting.json is present, I tried setting start at login and maybe some other changes without any impact, it only starts at login if I put it in the desktop startup group. The contents at present are:

  "Additional_Interfaces": [],
   "ApplicationPort": 33081,
   "Blocked_Interfaces": [],
   "CheckUpdate": 1,
   "DLNA_FriendlyName": "Macast(piano)",
   "Macast_Protocol": "DLNA Protocol",
   "Macast_Renderer": "MPV Renderer",
   "MenubarIcon": 1,
   "PlayerDefaultVolume": 100,
   "PlayerHW": 1,
   "PlayerOntop": 1,
   "PlayerPosition": 2,
   "PlayerSize": 1,
   "StartAtLogin": 1,
   "USN": "1bbc4793-ff61-46ca-9910-f3293e1c45b0"

mpv never appears visibly even if running and playing.

No plugins are installed, just the deb package.

Is it not compatible with Wayland and 22.04.03? Or did I perhaps do something incorrectly?

Linwood

[huhaorui]

I have the same problem with you, do you have any ideas now?

[Linwood-F]

No, I just gave up on it.

[dreamtale90]

Oh, I just upgraded from Deepin 20.9 to V23 and the same thing happened. The MACAST versions of the two systems are the same. I noticed that the MPV version has been upgraded from 0.29 to 0.38, so I debugged the MPV program and found that it did receive instructions from MACAST. I think it may be necessary to adapt to version 0.38 of MPV.