I have installed Ubuntu 17.10. Now i found that the OBS Studio recording software is not working with Wayland display server. It shows black screen and mouse pointer on the record screen. When I'm switching back to X.org it works perfect.
Could anyone advise ? thanks in advance.
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OBS Studio will not work without Xorg, as it directly talks to X11 in order to perform screen recording. There is already an open bug on the issue of recording under Wayland sessions, on the bug tracker.
You may be able to run the app under Xwayland and force QT_QPA_PLATFORM=xcb for OBS STudio, but there is no guarantees it will work.
This challenge can potentially be resolve using either obs-xdg-portal or obs-gnome-screencast free and open source plugins.
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