[SOLVED] OBS screen recording and Discord not working

[marannnn]

Hi,
In OBS (flatpak version however the native wasn't any different), whenever I click on the "Screen capture" button a window with a "open selector" button pops up however when I click on it it doesn't do anything. This is the ouptup:

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info: PipeWire initialized
warning: [pipewire] Failed to create session, denied or cancelled by user

In Discord (this is specifically Vesktop-bin, but again the official is the same) whenever I choose screensharing option, it says "Oops, Something is not working"

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[13959:1001/191017.591012:ERROR:third_party/webrtc/modules/desktop_capture/linux/wayland/base_capturer_pipewire.cc:82] ScreenCastPortal failed: 3
Error during screenshare picker Failed to get sources.
(node:13959) UnhandledPromiseRejectionWarning: TypeError: Video was requested, but no video stream was provided
    at VCDMain:80:50834
(node:13959) UnhandledPromiseRejectionWarning: Unhandled promise rejection. This error originated either by throwing inside of an async function without a catch block, or by rejecting a promise which was not handled with .catch(). To terminate the node process on unhandled promise rejection, use the CLI flag `--unhandled-rejections=strict` (see https://nodejs.org/api/cli.html#cli_unhandled_rejections_mode). (rejection id: 16)

Pipewire:

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[ebuild   R    ] media-video/pipewire-1.4.8-r2:0/0.4::gentoo  USE="X dbus extra ffmpeg gstreamer lv2 pipewire-alsa readline sound-server ssl systemd v4l -bluetooth -doc -echo-cancel (-elogind) -fftw -flatpak -gsettings -ieee1394 -jack-client -jack-sdk -liblc3 -loudness -man -modemmanager -roc (-selinux) (-system-service) -test -zeroconf" ABI_X86="(64) -32 (-x32)" 0 KiB

I have the xdg-desktop-portal-kde package installed.
I have even tried reinstalling the whole system (at least 2 times) but it just doesn't work. I appreciate any help

SOLUTION:

Add the screencast flag to the make.conf (or the speciffic pakcages) and rebuild everything. It says it in the wiki https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/PipeWire (that I have read many times but I still somehow missed it)

[flexibeast]

Hmm .... Is sys-apps/xdg-desktop-portal also installed? That's the frontend for backend implementations like xdg-desktop-portal-kde. And are the settings in any relevant portals.conf file(s) on your system (cf. the 'xdg-desktop-portal' page on the wiki) all correct?

[marannnn]

Hmm .... Is sys-apps/xdg-desktop-portal also installed? That's the frontend for backend implementations like xdg-desktop-portal-kde. And are the settings in any relevant portals.conf file(s) on your system (cf. the 'xdg-desktop-portal' page on the wiki) all correct?

Yes, the portal is installed.

This is the portals.conf file in /usr/share,..:

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[preferred]
default=*

This is the kde-portals.conf:

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[preferred]
default=kde
org.freedesktop.impl.portal.Settings=kde;gtk;
org.freedesktop.impl.portal.Secret=kwallet

And this is the /portals/kde.portal

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[portal]
DBusName=org.freedesktop.impl.portal.desktop.kde
Interfaces=org.freedesktop.impl.portal.Access;org.freedesktop.impl.portal.
Account;org.freedesktop.impl.portal.AppChooser;org.freedesktop.impl.portal.
Background;org.freedesktop.impl.portal.Email;org.freedesktop.impl.portal.
FileChooser;org.freedesktop.impl.portal.Inhibit;org.freedesktop.impl.portal
.Notification;org.freedesktop.impl.portal.Print;org.freedesktop.impl.portal
.ScreenCast;org.freedesktop.impl.portal.Screenshot;org.freedesktop.impl.
portal.RemoteDesktop;org.freedesktop.impl.portal.Settings;org.freedesktop.
impl.portal.DynamicLauncher;org.freedesktop.impl.portal.GlobalShortcuts;org
.freedesktop.impl.portal.InputCapture;org.freedesktop.impl.portal.Clipboard
UseIn=KDE

I think there is nothing wrong with them

Wrapped the 'Interfaces' key/value line to make the forum layout behave. —Chiitoo

[flexibeast]

i'm not a KDE user myself, so i don't have the relevant files installed; what are the full paths to the KDE config files you mentioned? If they're not located within your home directory, can you confirm that there are no portal config files within your home directory, e.g. under $HOME/.config/xdg-desktop-portal/, and perhaps others?

This is perhaps clutching at straws a bit, because i would expect this to be covered by the `default=kde` line, but does adding:

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org.freedesktop.impl.portal.ScreenCast=kde

to kde-portals.conf make any difference?

[marannnn]

The mentioned files are these:

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/usr/share/xdg-desktop-portal/portals.conf

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/usr/share/xdg-desktop-portal/kde-portals.conf

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/usr/share/xdg-desktop-portal/portals/kde.portal

I did not find any other files somewhere else.

Also I think this isn't a "kde portal' problem because this was also happening on River (wlr portal) and hyprland (hyprland portal)


I tried putting the org.freedesktop.impl.portal.ScreenCast=kde into the file but it still says this:[/code]

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warning: [pipewire] Failed to create session, denied or cancelled by user

[marannnn]

I HAVE FOUND A SOLUTION:

Add the screencast flag to the make.conf (or the speciffic pakcages) and rebuild everything. It says it in the wiki https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/PipeWire (that I have read many times but I still somehow missed it)