SUMMARY OBS SCREEN RECORDING TESTS: FlatPak OBS VERSION: 29.1.3 KDE PLASMA - X11 OBS - Screen Capture (XSHM) GNOME - WAYLAND: RESULT: OBS Sees the screen contents for all screens/monitors Recording: Successful recording and playback of recording KDE PLASMA - WAYLAND - NEW USER ACCOUNT: The "Choose which screens to share with OBS Studio:" window only shows generic template images representing the monitors in front of the monitor Models Both the properties window and main OBS screen display black All screens/monitors for OBS show black - unless i physically disconnect my video card from my computer In that case OBS successfully shows all connected monitors NOTE: Recently the 'PipeWire' option is missing from the OBS input options list on my less recent user account **** OBS WILL RECORD ANY/ALL SCREENS/MONITORS FINE UNDERWAYLAND IF I DISCONNECT MY VIDEO CARD FROM MY PC **** ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- PCI-E VIDEO CARD DETAILS: ------------------------- "PITCAIRN" ATI Radeon Model: "ATI Pitcairn PRO [Radeon HD 7850 / R7 265 / R9 270 1024SP]" STEPS TO REPRODUCE 1. Open OBS 2. Select 'Add source' > screen Capture (PipeWire) 3. Select Screen/Monitor you want to record: OBSERVED RESULT: OBS only shows you as black screen for screen/monitor EXPECTED RESULT: Should be able to see contents of screen/monitor and record it SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS: Operating System: openSUSE Tumbleweed 20230821 KDE Plasma Version: 5.27.7 KDE Frameworks Version: 5.109.0 Qt Version: 5.15.10 Kernel Version: 6.4.11-1-default (64-bit) Graphics Platform: Wayland Processors: 4 × Intel® Core™ i5-3570K CPU @ 3.40GHz Memory: 11.6 GiB of RAM Graphics Processor: PITCAIRN ADDITIONAL INFORMATION - OLD RELATED BUGS: can't select a pipewire display or window to record in wayland (obs) https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=451236 Cannot record the screen with OBS Studio from flathub on Wayland https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=456485 xdg-desktop-portal-kde crashed when i allowed flatpak OBS Studio to record https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=437852 Spectacle thinks that OBS Studio and VokoscreenNG screen recorders are not installed but they are https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=417575 [Wayland] xdg-desktop-portal-kde crashing when running OBS-Studio https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=453069 OBS crashes in ScreenCastSession::setStreams() when monitor for screen capture (pipewire) is changed https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=459693 Incompatibility with OBS https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=445728 kwin_wayland crashes in KWin::ScreenCastStream::enqueue() when screen recording with OBS 29.1 beta https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=467959 OBS Studio from flathub crashes after choosing the screen to share https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=464593
Thank you for the bug report. Can we ask you to please check if this is still an issue with a more recent version, such as Plasma 6.3.5?
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🐛🧹 This bug has been in NEEDSINFO status with no change for at least 30 days. Closing as RESOLVED WORKSFORME.