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AsfhtgkDavid

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[SOLVED] Demonstration doesn't work

I recently updated my system and discovered that screen sharing no longer works. Discord displays an error, and Firefox and OBS simply do not capture the screen. I am using PipeWire.

Last edited by AsfhtgkDavid (2025-10-13 19:44:39)

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Scimmia

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Re: [SOLVED] Demonstration doesn't work

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=57855

AsfhtgkDavid

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Re: [SOLVED] Demonstration doesn't work

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=57855

I'm sorry, but could you tell me which logs I need to send? I'm not sure which logs are needed for this issue.

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seth

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Re: [SOLVED] Demonstration doesn't work

Discord displays an error

Maybe start w/ that - also console output when starting the process from an interactive shell and generally maybe your complete system journal for the boot:

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

Notably since

I recently updated my system and discovered that screen sharing no longer works.

Did you inadvertently migrate from X11 to wayland w/ KDE making it the default and gnome the only option now?

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AsfhtgkDavid

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Re: [SOLVED] Demonstration doesn't work

Did you inadvertently migrate from X11 to wayland w/ KDE making it the default and gnome the only option now?

No, I already on Hyprland. I simple do

yay -Syu

Here, OBS output:

error: Source ID 'pipewire-screen-capture-source' not found
error: Failed to create source 'Screen capture (PipeWire)'!

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killertofus

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Re: [SOLVED] Demonstration doesn't work

you will need need grim+slurp, since you use hyprland, a hypr* package will pull those in so no need to install them

also link/check your hyprland config to see if dbus-update-activation-environment WAYLAND_DISPLAY XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP is in your startups, if not you need to add it
then reboot

you could also use xdg-desktop-portal-wlr with the gtk version and in your ~/.config/xdg-desktop-portal/portals.conf add this

[preferred]
default=gtk
org.freedesktop.impl.portal.Screenshot=wlr
org.freedesktop.impl.portal.ScreenCast=wlr 

then making sure as above seeing if dbus-update-activation-environment WAYLAND_DISPLAY XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP is added to your startups in your hyprland config, then reboot

AsfhtgkDavid

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Re: [SOLVED] Demonstration doesn't work

It seems that I was missing the xdg-desktop-portal-hyprland-git package, so I installed it and now everything works.

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