Bug Report Window capture (XComposite) won't see EVINCE

[fzied]

Hi,
I'm trying to add a source "Window Capture" and capture Evince PDF Viewer; only OBS won't detect the PDF Viewer Evince and cannot see it in the drop down box of current windows, while it will see xpdf and other windows.
My system is Fedora 30 and I installed as the instructions in the guide.
Thanks,
Zied.

 

[Tuna]

Without a log always difficult to say. Perhaps you are running wayland and Evince is running natively under wayland. Xcomposite will only capture native X11 windows or apps running under xwayland on wayland.

 

[biraum]

Hi. Try "obs -b" in terminal. I installed bumblebee to use "optirun", according to "https://obsproject.com/forum/threads/xcomposite-window-capture-not-working.81389/post-431023", but it did not work at first. However, with "-b" it worked. I just changed red by blue in the properties in OBS' Xcomposite so the colors be right. Took the idea from here "http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/bionic/man1/optirun.1.html", but I have no idea why it worked. Then I purged bumblebee and still work.