I'm running Fedora Linux with Sway,
and I wanted to capture some stuff with OBS.
However, there is simply no option to do a "Window capture".
As far as I can tell, this is usually
attributed to problems with PipeWire or
As suggested in
xdg-desktop-portal-wlr
.
Despite that, I can do a full screen capture – that works via PipeWire,
and to select the monitor it prompts me with a nice window,
which is, presumably, generated by xdg-desktop-portal-wlr
.
So, I guess, those work just fine:

xdg-desktop-portal-wlr
GitHub repo, I've also added this to my sway config:
exec dbus-update-activation-environment --systemd WAYLAND_DISPLAY XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP=sway
However, that didn't really help.
What else can cause OBS to refuse to capture windows?
Asked by keddad
(643 rep)
Dec 9, 2021, 09:48 AM
Last activity: Jun 20, 2022, 05:28 PM
Last activity: Jun 20, 2022, 05:28 PM