Screen share

The privacy mask behind hide_when_screen_sharing in media and harvest. Any PipeWire video-input stream (portal screencast, camera grab) counts as sharing; while one lasts, the media player hides and the Harvest pill masks entry details.

Section: [screen_share]. Keys are section-only (no flat top-level spelling).

Key	Type	Default	What it does
ignore_apps	list of strings	[]	Apps whose grabs never count as sharing, matched case-insensitively against the stream's application.name and node.name. For ambient screen consumers without an audience (a Hue light sync), not for hiding real casts from yourself. huenicorn is always ignored, built in

• Finding the name to ignore: wam screen-share lists the streams the mask sees right now and what it recently masked on, with the exact value to add for each.
• Changes apply on restart: wam restart.

The PipeWire watcher behind this mask also drives the bar's two other privacy indicators: the camera dot (steady red while an app is grabbing a real camera — a call with video on) and the microphone blink (the panel's mic icon blinks red while an app records a microphone, muted included). ignore_apps silences the camera dot the same way it silences the mask; portal screencasts light the mask but deliberately not the camera dot, which only answers to a device-backed camera being grabbed. See quicksettings for the indicator descriptions.