Solution to Blank Screen in Output Video During Screen Recording in OBS Studio for Fedora Workstation 33 Linux

[Turritopsis Dohrnii Teo En Ming]

Subject: Solution to Blank Screen in Output Video During Screen 
Recording in OBS Studio for Fedora Workstation 33 Linux

Good day from Singapore,

My laptop is a refurbished HP Elitebook 840 G1 installed with Fedora 
Workstation 33 Linux 64-bit.

My integrated VGA cards are:

[teo-en-ming@localhost ~]$ lspci | grep VGA
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Haswell-ULT 
Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 0b)
03:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. 
[AMD/ATI] Mars [Radeon HD 8730M]

When I do screen recording in OBS Studio, the output video shows a blank 
screen.

I have solved this problem by doing the following few steps.

$ sudo nano /etc/gdm/custom.conf

Uncommment the following line.

#WaylandEnable=false

Save the file.

Reboot your laptop.

You should now be able to do screen recording in OBS Studio without 
blank screen in the output video. It is this simple.

Reference Guide: How to Fix blank screen issue on Ubuntu 17.10 wayland
Link: 
https://obsproject.com/forum/threads/how-to-fix-blank-screen-issue-on-ubu...

Mr. Turritopsis Dohrnii Teo En Ming, 42 years old as of 6th Jan 2021 
Wed, is a TARGETED INDIVIDUAL living in Singapore. He is an IT 
Consultant with a System Integrator (SI)/computer firm in Singapore. He 
is an IT enthusiast.






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[Samuel Sieb]

On 1/6/21 6:54 AM, Turritopsis Dohrnii Teo En Ming wrote:
>  When I do screen recording in OBS Studio, the output video shows a
> blank 
>  screen. 
Yes, OBS has trouble with Wayland.

>  I have solved this problem by doing the following few steps.
>  
>  $ sudo nano /etc/gdm/custom.conf
>  
>  Uncommment the following line.
>  
>  #WaylandEnable=false
>  
>  Save the file.
>  
>  Reboot your laptop. 
The easier solution is to pick "Gnome on Xorg" from the desktop 
selection.  After you click on your name on the login screen and before 
you enter your password, there's a little gear icon at the bottom-right 
of the screen.  Click on that to change the desktop.