obs-studio cannot be used inside neem about newm

[jbuchermn]

I noticed some popup misplacements when the output is not located at 0, 0 - I'll take a look into that.

Apart from that obs seems to work fine.

[jbuchermn]

If there are other issues with obs - can you make a video, like in the other issue? That really helps a lot.

[CRAG666]

Sure I will make a video after my workday

[CRAG666]

@jbuchermn In the following video I open obs in newm, I press modpress, I also try to resize but where I try it simply does not apply correctly to obs studio, also fortunately you can see the clearest flicker that I speak of but it does not occur those scales only occurs at those scales with obs https://drive.google.com/file/d/1hr63iXtiGRcuo6ojhdBj9q6CEWwcO5Go/view?usp=sharing

[jbuchermn]

Okay, that's very interesting thanks.

Two things:

• Can you try again using an output placed at 0, 0?
• Can you upload a new video with the current version? Some scaling issues should be less prominent

[jbuchermn]

Btw - what kind of menu are you using to launch OBS? That does look nice

[CRAG666]

I use some rofi applets (hence my insistence that newm be compatible with rofi :) https://github.com/adi1090x/rofi

[CRAG666]

I just tried it and if it works well on my main monitor at 0.0 output, except for some inconveniences with the popup where it is impossible for me to use the cursor

[CRAG666]

I also notice that even in position 0,0, its scale is quite large, the menus look very large

[CRAG666]

If you like how it looks you can use my configuration of the applets, for example add some for the clipboards and to manage my bookmarks https://github.com/CRAG666/dotfiles/tree/master/config/rofi

[jbuchermn]

Thanks for the configs, I'll try that ;)

[jbuchermn]

The popup issues is something I'm looking into.

What do you mean be large scale? Can you post a screenshot?

[jbuchermn]

By the way, I just noticed, popup misplacement, if output isn't placed at 0,0, happens on sway as well. So I suspect this part is actually an obs bug.

The scaling part however is smething I want to investigate

[CRAG666]

To make this easier to distinguish, I will upload a photo of audacity and one of obs and see how the obs scale is huge (it is not a question of qt because the other qt apps that I have if they respect the scale)

[jbuchermn]

If it was scaled up by the compositor it would look blurry.

From the screenshot it doesn't look like it.. Can you tell?

Does obs change if you change scale?

If so please post the result in the log file of hitting F1.

[CRAG666]

---- server begin ----
wm_layout
wm_output: DP-2 (1280 x 1024) at 0, 0
wm_output: eDP-1 (1366 x 768) at 1833, 0
wm_widget (3784.000000, 1097.000000 - 0.000000, 0.000000)
wm_widget (3784.000000, 0.000000 - 0.000000, 0.000000)
wm_widget (1833.000000, 1097.000000 - 0.000000, 0.000000)
wm_widget (1833.000000, 0.000000 - 0.000000, 0.000000)
wm_widget (1828.000000, 1462.000000 - 0.000000, 0.000000)
wm_widget (1828.000000, 0.000000 - 0.000000, 0.000000)
wm_widget (0.000000, 1462.000000 - 0.000000, 0.000000)
wm_widget (0.000000, 0.000000 - 0.000000, 0.000000)
wm_view: kitty, kitty, toplevel, 3258 (548.500000, 1900.500000 - 731.000000, 585.000000) of size 1816, 1450 (offset = 0, 0)
surface (0, 0 constrained) of size 1816, 1450: 0x5597cab1d320
wm_view_xdg for 0x5597cab1d320
wm_view: newm_log (~/.cache) - NVIM, kitty, toplevel, 5421 (613.500000, 491.500000 - 601.000000, 479.000000) of size 1816, 1450 (offset = 0, 0)
surface (0, 0 constrained) of size 1816, 1450: 0x5597cab2d680
wm_view_xdg for 0x5597cab2d680
wm_view: OBS 27.1.3-1 (linux) - Perfíl: Sin Título - Escenas: Sin Título, obs, toplevel, 55940 (1839.000000, 6.000000 - 1939.000000, 1085.000000) of size 1939, 1085 (offset = 0, 0)
surface (0, 0 constrained) of size 1940, 1086: 0x5597cab57ee0
surface (0, 50 constrained) of size 1940, 406: 0x5597cab55f30
wm_view_xdg for 0x5597cab57ee0
wm_xdg_subsurface for 0x5597cab55f30
wm_view: obs-studio no se puede usar dentro de neem · Número 49 · jbuchermn / newm - Google Chrome, google-chrome, toplevel, 6986 (-112.000000, 6.000000 - 1939.000000, 1085.000000) of size 1939, 1085 (offset = 0, 0)
surface (0, 0 constrained) of size 1939, 1085: 0x5597cab42930
wm_view_xdg for 0x5597cab42930
wm_view: (null), (null), (null), 0 (0.000000, 0.000000 - 0.000000, 0.000000) of size 0, 0 (offset = 0, 0)
wm_view_xwayland
wm_view: (null), (null), (null), 0 (0.000000, 0.000000 - 0.000000, 0.000000) of size 0, 0 (offset = 0, 0)
wm_view_xwayland
wm_view: (null), (null), (null), 0 (0.000000, 0.000000 - 0.000000, 0.000000) of size 0, 0 (offset = 0, 0)
wm_view_xwayland
wm_view: (null), (null), (null), 0 (0.000000, 0.000000 - 0.000000, 0.000000) of size 0, 0 (offset = 0, 0)
wm_view_xwayland
wm_view: (null), (null), (null), 0 (0.000000, 0.000000 - 0.000000, 0.000000) of size 0, 0 (offset = 0, 0)
wm_view_xwayland
wm_view: (null), (null), (null), 0 (0.000000, 0.000000 - 0.000000, 0.000000) of size 0, 0 (offset = 0, 0)
wm_view_xwayland
wm_view: obs, Obs, obs, 0 (0.000000, 0.000000 - 0.000000, 0.000000) of size 0, 0 (offset = 0, 0)
wm_view_xwayland
wm_view: Layer Shell, waybar, layer, 3295 (1833.000000, 1101.000000 - 1951.000000, 20.000000) of size 1951, 20 (offset = 0, 0)
surface (0, 0) of size 1951, 20: 0x5597cab23aa0
wm_view_layer for 0x5597cab23aa0 on output 0x5597c99822d0
wm_view: Layer Shell, waybar, layer, 3295 (0.000000, 1442.000000 - 1828.000000, 20.000000) of size 1828, 20 (offset = 0, 0)
surface (0, 0) of size 1828, 20: 0x5597cab22fa0
wm_view_layer for 0x5597cab22fa0 on output 0x5597c9ac3f60
wm_widget (1832.785698, -0.071438 - 1951.428605, 1097.142876)
wm_widget (-385.285736, 0.285702 - 2598.571473, 1461.428596)
---- server end ------

[CRAG666]

In the image if you notice the top menu is smaller in audacity than in obs and other elements of the interface if they are larger than normal

[jbuchermn]

From this line

wm_view: OBS 27.1.3-1 (linux) - Perfíl: Sin Título - Escenas: Sin Título, obs, toplevel, 55940 (1839.000000, 6.000000 - 1939.000000, 1085.000000) of size 1939, 1085 (offset = 0, 0)

you can see that newm does not scale obs up. If it would scale up (f.e. by a factor of 2) you'd see something like

wm_view ... (x, y - 1000, 1000) of size 500, 500

How big clients choose to display their UI is not the decision of any compositor...

[CRAG666]

Understood even that I still have the doubt why this does not happen in swaywm even when I used a different scale

[CRAG666]

output eDP-1 res --custom 1920x1080 pos 1600,0
This is the configuration of my monitor is swaywm

[CRAG666]

I must emphasize that my monitor is 1366x768. But sway lets set any resolution

[CRAG666]

Oh well. After receiving your answer of this that I comment I will close the problem

[jbuchermn]

newm should let you set any resolution as well. If you can try with the exact same settings as sway and the app is displayed differently on sway then on newm, you can keep this open and I'll continue looking into it.

[jbuchermn]

wait - sway lets you set a resolution that is HIGHER than the actual resolution? That can't be sensible...

If you set sway to the correct resolution and scale 0.7 (i.e. exactly same settings as newm) - what does happen?

[CRAG666]

Unfortunately this cannot be set the same as newm because in the end it re-sets 1366x768 :(

[jbuchermn]

You can't set sway to 1366x768 on a 0.7 scale?

[CRAG666]

yes, but replicating the configuration of swaywm to new m does not. But don't get me wrong, newm does many things better than swaywm But perhaps the problem is intrinsic to obs

[jbuchermn]

Yeah, of course you cannot set an output to a higher resolution than it supports in newm (don't know why this is "possible" in sway - or if it's a bug).

But when you run both compositors using the same settings (1366x768 resolution, scale 1.0 or 0.7). Does obs behave differently on both? If it does, then there might be something unrelated going wrong.

[CRAG666]

Yeah, of course you cannot set an output to a higher resolution than it supports in newm (don't know why this is "possible" in sway - or if it's a bug).

But when you run both compositors using the same settings (1366x768 resolution, scale 1.0 or 0.7). Does obs behave differently on both? If it does, then there might be something unrelated going wrong.

I suppose it cheats and what it actually does is define a fractional scale but I don't know how it does it

[CRAG666]

I used obs for a long time with swaywm and there were no problems in terms of scale, it is rare that it happened with newm but it does not make me doubt it and more when it is done in qt well cute if it is a headache because you can program things wrong . I will close this for now, I will try with some environment variables and if it works I will not reopen the problem but I will write something in the documentation related to what I learn from this