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Does anyone know how to get screen capture working in OBS on Wayland? (lemmings.world)
submitted 12 hours ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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It works fine on X, but switching to Wayland grays out the option to select which window.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) (1 children)
  1. Add screen capture
  1. Your system will do a pop up to select screen, region or window
  1. Here you can see it working with a window. If you don't get the popup from 2, here is a button to force it

If that does not work for you, something is broken and if you want help you have to post details on OS, DE, OBS logs and system logs.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) (1 children)

Thanks. Screen capture isn't quite the same as window capture though. But this works.

I'm not sure why they decided to combine the functionality for Wayland.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago)

There is a tab in that selector dialog for windows. Arrow is pointing at it in the screenshot.