OBS studio's "Window Capture (Xcomposite)" not working

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I am a new user of Manjaro KDE. I used to use OBS studio for recording purposes, but on manjaro its "windows capture " feature is not working
I’ve attached some screenshots
OBS studio version: 26.0.2-2

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Pls help

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Looks like it works just fine. It’s capturing the window as far as I can see.

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It only captures the OBS main window and properties window.
IN windows setting you can see an unknown name.

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Do you have other windows open?
Are you running under wayland?
Is OBS from the repo, Flathub, Snap or AppImage?

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Yes I do have terminal and telegram open but they are not showing up in windows menu.
How to check if I am running under wayland.
I installed OBS from official repo
I tried installing OBS from flatpak and snap but the issue still persists.

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Run inxi -Gazy.

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I ran inxi -Gazy
Following is the output:

   Device-1: NVIDIA GP107M [GeForce GTX 1050 3 GB Max-Q] 
   vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: nvidia v: 455.45.01 
   alternate: nouveau,nvidia_drm bus ID: 01:00.0 chip ID: 10de:1c91 
   Device-2: AMD Picasso vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: amdgpu v: kernel 
   bus ID: 05:00.0 chip ID: 1002:15d8 
   Device-3: IMC Networks HP TrueVision HD Camera type: USB driver: uvcvideo 
   bus ID: 3-1:2 chip ID: 13d3:56c9 serial: <filter> 
   Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.9 compositor: kwin_x11 
   driver: amdgpu,ati,nvidia unloaded: modesetting,nouveau 
   alternate: fbdev,nv,vesa display ID: :0 screens: 1 
   Screen-1: 0 s-res: 1920x1080 s-dpi: 96 s-size: 508x285mm (20.0x11.2") 
   s-diag: 582mm (22.9") 
   M onitor-1: eDP res: 1920x1080 hz: 60 dpi: 142 size: 344x194mm (13.5x7.6") 
   diag: 395mm (15.5") 
   OpenGL: renderer: AMD Radeon Vega 8 Graphics (RAVEN DRM 3.35.0 
   5.4.80-2-MANJARO LLVM 11.0.0) 
   v : 4.6 Mesa 20.2.3 direct render: Yes

Its X11

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Is your problem solved, because I have the exact same issue and havent found any workaround for this. Also I cannot stream a particular window in Discord, so maybe its not a bug from OBS’s side. Might be something else.