element-hq / element-hq/element-web

Screen sharing window selector only shows a small portion of what should be available

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A-Electron A-Media O-Occasional O-Uncommon S-Major T-Defect
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### Your use case

#### What would you like to do?

I'm not sure if this is just a limitation in the current implementation or if it's a bug, but when screen sharing and choosing the option to share a specific window, I'd like to be able to choose _any_ open window, including Element itself, however I can't.

Despite having 20+ windows open, I was only given three options to share, none of which were Element, which is what I wanted to share. Furthermore, one of the options was a browser window, yet I had two other windows for that browser and another window for an entirely different browser open, and none of those were shown as options for sharing. Another option was a video player, though I had at least two instances of it open, but only one was shown. And the third option was the TrayControl (small dock with controls) for AIMP, which is a bit pointless to share, yet was shown while not showing other apps.

Meanwhile, my friend, with far fewer apps running, was actually given more options than me for sharing. I'm not sure if what it shows is limited to not show apps that are minimized, and I'll have to check that, but if that's the case, it should say that in the window to avoid confusion, and Element certainly wasn't minimized.

#### Why would you like to do it?

To share only one window instead of the whole screen, i.e. use it for the purpose its intended.

#### How would you like to achieve it?

By having _all_ open windows be available for selection, including Element.

### Have you considered any alternatives?

_No response_

### Additional context

- Desktop: Element version: 1.11.18 Olm version: 3.2.12
- Win10, Version 22H2 (OS Build 19045.2604)

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