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Muhammadsiddiq
Asked: 2021-06-23 05:33:17 +0800 CST

Ubuntu 22.04 any screen recorders not working. Showing black screen only!

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I've just installed Ubuntu 22.04(also 21.04). I used to install obs studio and Kazam to record my screen. In OBS-Studio if I select only window recording it records but the fullscreen option is not working recording only the cursor. Any solutions?

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6 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    I found a solution.

    In this file /etc/gdm3/custom.conf (to access it for editing, you could run sudo nano /etc/gdm3/custom.conf), uncomment (remove the leading #) this line

    WaylandEnable=false

    save and exit.

    Then run this command in the terminal

    sudo systemctl restart gdm3

    Happy Ubuntu :)

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  2. This may be because Ubuntu 21.04 uses Wayland by default, which restricts screen recording for "security".

    In your login screen, you can switch to the "Ubuntu" session, which uses X.Org, and it should allow screen recording software to function properly.

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  3. I am using Ubuntu 21.10 with wayland just fine with a new screen recorder called Kooha (available on Flathub). It can record desktop and microphone audio to MP4 as well as Gif, and with selected area, monitor, or application window.

    However, to get it to work I had to install the latest version of Pipewire Debian using the ppa, as the Pipewire version included with Ubuntu 21.04 was not compatible with Kooha:

    sudo add-apt-repository ppa:pipewire-debian/pipewire-upstream
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt install pipewire
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  4. First, it uses Wayland. That means you need OBS studio 27 and higher, I recommend to use flatpak because it uses this by default, so it works just fine. Also, you can use Peek for screen recording. Apps like simple screen recorder are made for x11, not modern Wayland protocol

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  5. Although this is an old question, I've found a solution by using the PipeWire technology with Gnome DE (in my case 3.32) and Chrome (at present version 77).

    Check this out: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/PipeWire#WebRTC_screen_sharing

    Just open chrome://flags/#enable-webrtc-pipewire-capturer set it as enabled and restart chrome. You'll be able to share your entire screen or any single window. & you might need to restart.

    I hope it helps

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  6. You don't have to change from Wayland to Xorg.
    Remove existing OBS Studio using

    sudo apt remove obs-studio

    Then install using snap

    sudo snap install obs-studio

    The snap version supports screen recording for Wayland too.

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