Skip to content

Instantly share code, notes, and snippets.

@sepastian

sepastian/obs_screen_capture_wayland.md

Created October 23, 2025 09:43
Show Gist options

  • Select an option

    Learn more about clone URLs
  • Save sepastian/0ffdfaf298b66e5cf0c4f84ba7579968 to your computer and use it in GitHub Desktop.

Select an option

Learn more about clone URLs
Save sepastian/0ffdfaf298b66e5cf0c4f84ba7579968 to your computer and use it in GitHub Desktop.
Download ZIP
Screen capture in OBS under Wayland
Raw
obs_screen_capture_wayland.md

To enable screen capture in OBS under Wayland, install wlrobs.

Follow the instructions found here.

(Install mercurial first, if required.)

# clone and compile
hg clone https://hg.sr.ht/~scoopta/wlrobs
cd wlrobs
meson setup build
ninja -C build

# copy plugin in place
mkdir -p ~/.config/obs-studio/plugins/wlrobs/bin/64bit
cp build/libwlrobs.so ~/.config/obs-studio/plugins/wlrobs/bin/64bit

Restart OBS and add a "Wayland output(scpy)" source to present your screen.

Sign up for free to join this conversation on GitHub. Already have an account? Sign in to comment