Obs Studio not showing windows in Linux Mint 22.1.

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akshays

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Hello,

I recently did a clean install of Linux Mint 22.1, and since then Obs Studio has stopped showing me window-previews, helpful during meetings for window overlays(The reason primarily why I use Obs.). I have tried with and without wayland by switching during Login itself. I tried in Cinnamon and Kde, no luck.
I also tried running it as root. I installed via Github, apt, snap, still no change.

Obs version: 30.0.2

Startup log is more than 15000 chars, so had to move it to pastebin. https://pastebin.com/rkg6GacR
Screenshot attached.

Can someone please let me know. Kinda stuck here since 2 days.

Thank you. :-)
 

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akshays

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AaronD said:
Your cropped screenshot cut off the button to do that: Studio Mode
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Hi,

I am attaching a complete screenshot. Can you tell me if there is some specific option you are looking for.
 

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AaronD said:
Again, Studio Mode. There's a button right there. Bottom right...
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Attaching new screenshots, I clicked on studio mode, selected the correct window. I also enabled Window preview. Thank you for your patience.
 

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akshays

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Screen recording works just fine, but i want to stream, not record. Typically overlay terminal on top of browser window. Worked before flawlessly. :-) My video also works fine, just windows are not getting shown.
 

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akshays said:
Screen recording works just fine, but i want to stream, not record.
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No difference in processing. It just sends the end result to a server instead of a file. That's all. Give it the server that you want to use, and whatever other information the server wants to get from it, and you're good.
Settings -> Stream
If you have a choice, I use the stream key, not account. I've seen lots of reports of account features not working. The key can't even use those features at all, and I know that, so it greatly reduces frustration that way. I do the account stuff through the normal standalone web browser. *That* is logged into my account; OBS is not.

akshays said:
Typically overlay terminal on top of browser window. Worked before flawlessly. :-) My video also works fine, just windows are not getting shown.
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There are lots of threads to that effect. Have you looked through them? I don't have an answer myself, because mine "just works".
Ubuntu Studio 22.04 LTS
 
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akshays

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AaronD said:
No difference in processing. It just sends the end result to a server instead of a file. That's all. Give it the server that you want to use, and whatever other information the server wants to get from it, and you're good.
Settings -> Stream
If you have a choice, I use the stream key, not account. I've seen lots of reports of account features not working. The key can't even use those features at all, and I know that, so it greatly reduces frustration that way. I do the account stuff through the normal standalone web browser. *That* is logged into my account; OBS is not.


There are lots of threads to that effect. Have you looked through them? I don't have an answer myself, because mine "just works".
Ubuntu Studio 22.04 LTS
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I tried many threads and different answers... nothing is helping. Most of them just say don't use Wayland, which I am not. :-)
 
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Tuna

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That first log shows OBS is not running on a GPU. I would not expect window or screen capture to work correctly in this case.
 
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akshays

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Tuna said:
That first log shows OBS is not running on a GPU. I would not expect window or screen capture to work correctly in this case.
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How can I make sure OBS uses GPU in that case? I have a Radeon RX 480 graphics card, for which I have installed drivers via the amdgpu deb file, and then the command

amdgpu-install --usecase=graphics,opencl --vulkan=amdvlk,pro -y --accept-eula
 
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akshays

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Tuna said:
That first log shows OBS is not running on a GPU. I would not expect window or screen capture to work correctly in this case.
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