Hello there!
I was giving Wayland a try after eyeing it for a long time. It has been quite smooth, working better than X on the features they both can do, with one exception however – screen recording.
I have installed the xdg-desktop-portal and xdg-desktop-portal-kde packages, as we as wireplumber.
I’ve been running with the latter active for some days with no issues in regards to audio.
Now, in OBS, I can correctly pick a window to record, the portal shows up all fine, and the recording works great. For a full screen capture, however, the portal shows up, yet the preview window remains pitch black, if not for the mouse cursor.
I have tried another recorder, Kooha, and it too can’t capture the entire screen or a region of it, instead displaying a white/gray checker pattern.
Any idea what this might be? I’ve looked at a lot of Reddit threads, posts on Manjaro’s, ArchLinux’s and OBS’ forums, reaching no conclusion. Everything seems to point to installing the correct XDG portals and a pipewire media session (such as wireplumber).
Thanks in advance!
Info dump
Here’s the block of Pipewire related logs shown by OBS:
info: [pipewire] Screencast session created
info: [pipewire] Screencast session created
info: [pipewire] Asking for desktop
info: [pipewire] Asking for window
info: [pipewire] window selected, setting up screencast
info: [pipewire] desktop selected, setting up screencast
info: [pipewire] Server version: 0.3.65
info: [pipewire] Library version: 0.3.65
info: [pipewire] Header version: 0.3.64
info: [pipewire] Created stream 0x55fecbf48690
info: [pipewire] Stream 0x55fecbf48690 state: "connecting" (error: none)
info: [pipewire] Playing stream 0x55fecbf48690
info: [pipewire] Stream 0x55fecbf48690 state: "paused" (error: none)
info: [pipewire] Server version: 0.3.65
info: [pipewire] Library version: 0.3.65
info: [pipewire] Header version: 0.3.64
info: [pipewire] Created stream 0x55fecbf7cd10
info: [pipewire] Stream 0x55fecbf7cd10 state: "connecting" (error: none)
info: [pipewire] Playing stream 0x55fecbf7cd10
info: [pipewire] Stream 0x55fecbf7cd10 state: "paused" (error: none)
info: [pipewire] Negotiated format:
info: [pipewire] Negotiated format:
info: [pipewire] Format: 12 (Spa:Enum:VideoFormat:BGRA)
info: [pipewire] Format: 12 (Spa:Enum:VideoFormat:BGRA)
info: [pipewire] Modifier: 0
info: [pipewire] Modifier: 0
info: [pipewire] Size: 1920x1080
info: [pipewire] Size: 1920x1035
info: [pipewire] Framerate: 0/1
info: [pipewire] Framerate: 0/1
info: [pipewire] Negotiated format:
info: [pipewire] Negotiated format:
info: [pipewire] Format: 12 (Spa:Enum:VideoFormat:BGRA)
info: [pipewire] Format: 12 (Spa:Enum:VideoFormat:BGRA)
info: [pipewire] Modifier: 216172782128496660
info: [pipewire] Modifier: 216172782128496660
info: [pipewire] Size: 1920x1080
info: [pipewire] Size: 1920x1035
info: [pipewire] Framerate: 0/1
info: [pipewire] Framerate: 0/1
info: [pipewire] Stream 0x55fecbf7cd10 state: "streaming" (error: none)
info: [pipewire] Stream 0x55fecbf48690 state: "streaming" (error: none)
Here is inxi -v7azy:
System:
Kernel: 6.1.19-1-MANJARO arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 12.2.1
parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-6.1-x86_64
root=UUID=b8e4ec89-794c-4ce3-b10a-0102bf25e5b4 rw apparmor=1
security=apparmor udev.log_priority=3
bootsplash.bootfile=/bootsplash-themes/kde/bootsplash
Desktop: KDE Plasma v: 5.26.5 tk: Qt v: 5.15.8 wm: kwin_wayland vt: 2
dm: SDDM Distro: Manjaro Linux base: Arch Linux
Machine:
Type: Laptop System: <redacted>
v: Late 2019 serial: <superuser required> Chassis: type: 10 v: 1.0
serial: <superuser required>
Mobo: Intel model: <redacted> v: <redacted> serial: <superuser required>
UEFI: Intel v: <redacted> date: 05/23/2022
Battery:
ID-1: BAT0 charge: 56.1 Wh (60.0%) condition: 93.5/93.5 Wh (100.0%)
volts: 10.7 min: 11.4 model: standard type: Li-ion serial: <filter>
status: discharging
Memory:
RAM: total: 15.47 GiB used: 11.28 GiB (72.9%)
RAM Report: permissions: Unable to run dmidecode. Root privileges required.
CPU:
Info: model: Intel Core i7-9750H bits: 64 type: MT MCP arch: Coffee Lake
gen: core 9 level: v3 note: check built: 2018 process: Intel 14nm family: 6
model-id: 0x9E (158) stepping: 0xA (10) microcode: 0xF0
Topology: cpus: 1x cores: 6 tpc: 2 threads: 12 smt: enabled cache:
L1: 384 KiB desc: d-6x32 KiB; i-6x32 KiB L2: 1.5 MiB desc: 6x256 KiB
L3: 12 MiB desc: 1x12 MiB
Speed (MHz): avg: 1400 high: 2600 min/max: 800/4500 scaling:
driver: intel_pstate governor: powersave cores: 1: 800 2: 800 3: 800 4: 2600
5: 2600 6: 801 7: 800 8: 800 9: 800 10: 2600 11: 2600 12: 800
bogomips: 62431
Flags: 3dnowprefetch abm acpi adx aes aperfmperf apic arat
arch_capabilities arch_perfmon art avx avx2 bmi1 bmi2 bts clflush
clflushopt cmov constant_tsc cpuid cpuid_fault cx16 cx8 de ds_cpl dtes64
dtherm dts epb ept ept_ad erms est f16c flexpriority flush_l1d fma fpu
fsgsbase fxsr ht hwp hwp_act_window hwp_epp hwp_notify ibpb ibrs ida
intel_pt invpcid invpcid_single lahf_lm lm mca mce md_clear mmx monitor
movbe mpx msr mtrr nonstop_tsc nopl nx pae pat pbe pcid pclmulqdq pdcm
pdpe1gb pebs pge pln pni popcnt pse pse36 pti pts rdrand rdseed rdtscp
rep_good sdbg sep smap smep ss ssbd sse sse2 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 stibp
syscall tm tm2 tpr_shadow tsc tsc_adjust tsc_deadline_timer vme vmx vnmi
vpid x2apic xgetbv1 xsave xsavec xsaveopt xsaves xtopology xtpr
Vulnerabilities:
Type: itlb_multihit status: KVM: VMX disabled
Type: l1tf mitigation: PTE Inversion; VMX: conditional cache flushes, SMT
vulnerable
Type: mds mitigation: Clear CPU buffers; SMT vulnerable
Type: meltdown mitigation: PTI
Type: mmio_stale_data mitigation: Clear CPU buffers; SMT vulnerable
Type: retbleed mitigation: IBRS
Type: spec_store_bypass mitigation: Speculative Store Bypass disabled via
prctl
Type: spectre_v1 mitigation: usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer
sanitization
Type: spectre_v2 mitigation: IBRS, IBPB: conditional, STIBP: conditional,
RSB filling, PBRSB-eIBRS: Not affected
Type: srbds mitigation: Microcode
Type: tsx_async_abort status: Not affected
Graphics:
Device-1: Intel CoffeeLake-H GT2 [UHD Graphics 630] driver: i915 v: kernel
arch: Gen-9.5 process: Intel 14nm built: 2016-20 ports: active: eDP-1
empty: none bus-ID: 00:02.0 chip-ID: 8086:3e9b class-ID: 0300
Device-2: NVIDIA TU116M [GeForce GTX 1660 Ti Mobile] vendor: Intel
driver: nvidia v: 525.89.02 alternate: nouveau,nvidia_drm non-free: 525.xx+
status: current (as of 2023-02) arch: Turing code: TUxxx
process: TSMC 12nm FF built: 2018-22 pcie: gen: 2 speed: 5 GT/s lanes: 16
link-max: gen: 3 speed: 8 GT/s ports: active: none
empty: DP-1,DP-2,HDMI-A-1 bus-ID: 01:00.0 chip-ID: 10de:2191 class-ID: 0300
Device-3: Chicony HD Webcam type: USB driver: uvcvideo bus-ID: 1-13:4
chip-ID: 04f2:b68b class-ID: 0e02 serial: <filter>
Display: wayland server: X.org v: 1.21.1.7 with: Xwayland v: 22.1.8
compositor: kwin_wayland driver: X: loaded: modesetting,nvidia dri: iris
gpu: i915 display-ID: 0
Monitor-1: eDP-1 model: BOE Display 0x084d built: 2018 res: 1920x1080
dpi: 142 gamma: 1.2 size: 344x193mm (13.54x7.6") diag: 394mm (15.5")
ratio: 16:9 modes: 1920x1080
API: OpenGL v: 4.6.0 NVIDIA 525.89.02 renderer: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660
Ti/PCIe/SSE2 direct-render: Yes
Audio:
Device-1: Intel Cannon Lake PCH cAVS driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel
alternate: snd_soc_skl,snd_sof_pci_intel_cnl bus-ID: 00:1f.3
chip-ID: 8086:a348 class-ID: 0403
Device-2: NVIDIA TU116 High Definition Audio vendor: Tongfang Hongkong
driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel pcie: gen: 2 speed: 5 GT/s lanes: 16
link-max: gen: 3 speed: 8 GT/s bus-ID: 01:00.1 chip-ID: 10de:1aeb
class-ID: 0403
Sound API: ALSA v: k6.1.19-1-MANJARO running: yes
Sound Interface: sndio v: N/A running: no
Sound Server-1: JACK v: 1.9.22 running: no
Sound Server-2: PulseAudio v: 16.1 running: no
Sound Server-3: PipeWire v: 0.3.65 running: yes
Network:
Device-1: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet
vendor: Intel driver: r8169 v: kernel pcie: speed: Unknown lanes: 63
link-max: gen: 6 speed: 64 GT/s port: 3000 bus-ID: 3d:00.0
chip-ID: 10ec:8168 class-ID: 0200
IF: enp61s0 state: down mac: <filter>
Device-2: Intel Wi-Fi 6 AX200 driver: iwlwifi v: kernel pcie: gen: 2
speed: 5 GT/s lanes: 1 bus-ID: 3e:00.0 chip-ID: 8086:2723 class-ID: 0280
IF: wlan0 state: up mac: <filter>
IP v4: <filter> type: dynamic noprefixroute scope: global
broadcast: <filter>
IP v6: <filter> type: noprefixroute scope: link
IF-ID-1: docker0 state: down mac: <filter>
IP v4: <filter> scope: global broadcast: <filter>
IF-ID-2: wg-mullvad state: unknown speed: N/A duplex: N/A mac: N/A
IP v4: <filter> scope: global
Message: Output throttled. IPs: 2; Limit: 10; Override: --limit [1-x;-1
all]
WAN IP: <filter>
Bluetooth:
Device-1: Intel AX200 Bluetooth type: USB driver: btusb v: 0.8 bus-ID: 1-14:5
chip-ID: 8087:0029 class-ID: e001
Report: hciconfig ID: hci0 rfk-id: 12 state: up address: <filter> bt-v: 3.0
lmp-v: 5.2 sub-v: 200f hci-v: 5.2 rev: 200f
Info: acl-mtu: 1021:4 sco-mtu: 96:6 link-policy: rswitch sniff
link-mode: peripheral accept service-classes: rendering, capturing, object
transfer, audio, telephony
Logical:
Message: No logical block device data found.
RAID:
Message: No RAID data found.
Drives:
Local Storage: total: 465.76 GiB used: 389.44 GiB (83.6%)
SMART Message: Unable to run smartctl. Root privileges required.
ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 maj-min: 259:0 vendor: Crucial model: CT500P1SSD8
size: 465.76 GiB block-size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B speed: 31.6 Gb/s
lanes: 4 type: SSD serial: <filter> rev: P3CR021 temp: 38.9 C scheme: GPT
Message: No optical or floppy data found.
Partition:
ID-1: / raw-size: 70 GiB size: 68.35 GiB (97.64%) used: 64.54 GiB (94.4%)
fs: ext4 dev: /dev/nvme0n1p2 maj-min: 259:2 label: root
uuid: b8e4ec89-794c-4ce3-b10a-0102bf25e5b4
ID-2: /boot/efi raw-size: 512 MiB size: 511 MiB (99.80%)
used: 312 KiB (0.1%) fs: vfat dev: /dev/nvme0n1p1 maj-min: 259:1 label: N/A
uuid: 8BCC-FA41
ID-3: /home raw-size: 350 GiB size: 343.44 GiB (98.13%)
used: 323.1 GiB (94.1%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/nvme0n1p3 maj-min: 259:3
label: home uuid: c2c4dab5-0a58-42d4-b279-2791c65f4a17
Swap:
Kernel: swappiness: 60 (default) cache-pressure: 100 (default)
ID-1: swap-1 type: partition size: 8 GiB used: 1.8 GiB (22.5%) priority: -2
dev: /dev/nvme0n1p4 maj-min: 259:4 label: SWAP
uuid: 89ff7953-8699-42ab-bf57-98a619111bac
Unmounted:
Message: No unmounted partitions found.
USB:
Hub-1: 1-0:1 info: Hi-speed hub with single TT ports: 16 rev: 2.0
speed: 480 Mb/s chip-ID: 1d6b:0002 class-ID: 0900
Device-1: 1-6:2 info: Integrated Express ITE Device(8291)
type: Keyboard,HID driver: hid-generic,usbhid interfaces: 2 rev: 2.0
speed: 12 Mb/s power: 100mA chip-ID: 048d:ce00 class-ID: 0300
Device-2: 1-13:4 info: Chicony HD Webcam type: Video driver: uvcvideo
interfaces: 4 rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s power: 500mA chip-ID: 04f2:b68b
class-ID: 0e02 serial: <filter>
Device-3: 1-14:5 info: Intel AX200 Bluetooth type: Bluetooth driver: btusb
interfaces: 2 rev: 2.0 speed: 12 Mb/s power: 100mA chip-ID: 8087:0029
class-ID: e001
Hub-2: 2-0:1 info: Super-speed hub ports: 8 rev: 3.1 speed: 10 Gb/s
chip-ID: 1d6b:0003 class-ID: 0900
Device-1: 2-2:2 info: Realtek Card Reader type: Mass Storage
driver: usb-storage interfaces: 1 rev: 3.0 speed: 5 Gb/s power: 800mA
chip-ID: 0bda:0316 class-ID: 0806 serial: <filter>
Hub-3: 5-0:1 info: Hi-speed hub with single TT ports: 2 rev: 2.0
speed: 480 Mb/s chip-ID: 1d6b:0002 class-ID: 0900
Hub-4: 6-0:1 info: Super-speed hub ports: 2 rev: 3.1 speed: 10 Gb/s
chip-ID: 1d6b:0003 class-ID: 0900
Sensors:
System Temperatures: cpu: 52.0 C pch: 54.0 C mobo: N/A
Fan Speeds (RPM): cpu: 2875 fan-2: 2871
Info:
Processes: 371 Uptime: 3d 52m wakeups: 39 Init: systemd v: 252
default: graphical tool: systemctl Compilers: gcc: 12.2.1 clang: 15.0.7
Packages: pm: pacman pkgs: 3919 libs: 574 tools: octopi,pamac,paru,yay
pm: flatpak pkgs: 0 Shell: fish v: 3.6.0 running-in: kitty inxi: 3.3.25