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Alpha12GK

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Registered: 2026-06-20

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[SOLVED] Not being able to record screen or screenshare

I have been able to screenshare on discord and record my screen with different services for about a month already, but for some reason after installing obs and doing some stuff it randomly broke and when I try to record with kooha for example I get the following error msg:

Failed to start recording

Caused by:
    0: Failed to create session
    1: Failed to call `CreateSession` with parameters: Variant { ptr: 0x55a552b5ffb0, type: VariantTy { inner: "(a{sv})" }, value: "({'handle_token': <'kooha_1'>, 'session_handle_token': <'kooha_0'>},)" }
    2: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NameHasNoOwner: Could not activate remote peer 'org.freedesktop.portal.Desktop': startup job failed

Also when running: "systemctl --user status xdg-desktop-portal" I get the following error: xdg-desktop-portal.service: Job xdg-desktop-portal.service/start failed with result 'dependency'.

I have looked everywhere and even asked AI because I genuinely have no idea why it has randomly broken, I havent been able to even discover which "dependency" fails.

My laptop is an ASUS Vivobook Pro 15. Maybe that helps, idk.

Last edited by Alpha12GK (2026-06-20 12:46:10)

seth

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Re: [SOLVED] Not being able to record screen or screenshare

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=313989

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Alpha12GK

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Registered: 2026-06-20

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Re: [SOLVED] Not being able to record screen or screenshare

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=313989

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