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crystal_plays_piano

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Registered: 2025-08-15

Posts: 2

Screenshare loads indefinitely but OBS can see screen

hi! i'm relatively new here and to arch in general

i started using arch with hyprland and had no issues with it (reading the manual helped a lot genuinely)

unfortunately, for some reason some time in may i decided to install kde plasma to try it, immediately disliked it and uninstalled kde plasma

this broke screensharing a LOT and i spent a while trying to fix it doing a variety of things

currently, i can get my screen to be recorded in OBS as an input source, but i can't get it to share on any other wayland application

discord/zoom running in x11 mode with xwaylandvideobridge can see other x11 bridge applications, and i can share the video, but not the sound

after reboot, systemctl --user status xdg-desktop-portal-hyprland.service says that the service is "inactive (dead)", but an xdg-desktop-portal-gtk is running

journalctl --user -xeu xdg-desktop-portal-hyprland.service says:

"failed to request bus name: file exists"

,,,, help?

i do NOT know what is happening

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

Posts: 25,147

Re: Screenshare loads indefinitely but OBS can see screen

I'd generally suggest you read through https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/XDG_Desktop_Portal

But maybe more generally speaking post actual logs:

systemctl --user list-unit-files
printenv
sudo journalctl -b | curl -F 'file=@-' 0x0.st

crystal_plays_piano

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Registered: 2025-08-15

Posts: 2

Re: Screenshare loads indefinitely but OBS can see screen

here are the logs:

systemctl --user list-unit-files:

https://pastebin.com/7jz40ULq/

printenv:

https://pastebin.com/dgQWkXae/

sudo journalctl -b | curl -F 'file=@-' 0x0.st:

https://0x0.st/KrMn.txt