I have OBS Studio installed via a Flatpak on Fedora 35 Kinoite (rpm-ostree).
I wanted to use this to help record videos I'm doing to teach people more about
certain command-line tools, and I feel showing the key presses could be helpful
to some. After installing OBS Studio and the Input Overlay extensions, I do see
the Input Overlay option to add
I also used the Wiki
to get the overlay presets for QWERTY. I think I loaded them up correctly.
However, no keyboard presses are showing up. Is there something else I need to
do to get Input Overlay to work with OBS StudiO Flatpak?
Supporting Details
Fedora Version and Flatpak Version information.
```bash
~❯ flatpak --version
Flatpak 1.12.6
~❯ rpm -q flatpak
flatpak-1.12.6-1.fc35.x86_64
~❯ cat /etc/os-release
NAME="Fedora Linux"
VERSION="35.20220228.0 (Kinoite)"
ID=fedora
VERSION_ID=35
VERSION_CODENAME=""
PLATFORM_ID="platform:f35"
PRETTY_NAME="Fedora Linux 35.20220228.0 (Kinoite)"
ANSI_COLOR="0;38;2;60;110;180"
LOGO=fedora-logo-icon
CPE_NAME="cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:35"
HOME_URL="https://fedoraproject.org/"
DOCUMENTATION_URL="https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/fedora-kinoite/"
SUPPORT_URL="https://ask.fedoraproject.org/"
BUG_REPORT_URL="https://bugzilla.redhat.com/"
REDHAT_BUGZILLA_PRODUCT="Fedora"
REDHAT_BUGZILLA_PRODUCT_VERSION=35
REDHAT_SUPPORT_PRODUCT="Fedora"
REDHAT_SUPPORT_PRODUCT_VERSION=35
PRIVACY_POLICY_URL="https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Legal:PrivacyPolicy"
VARIANT="Kinoite"
VARIANT_ID=kinoite
OSTREE_VERSION='35.20220228.0'
~❯ flatpak list # Output trimmed to show only OBS Studio flatpaks
Name Application ID Version Branch Origin Installation
OBS Studio com.obsproject.Studio 27.2.3 stable flathub user
GStreamer Plugin com.obsproject.Studio.Plugin.Gstreamer 0.3.3 stable flathub user
Input Overlay Plugin com.obsproject.Studio.Plugin.InputOverlay stable flathub user
```
I don't have anything to do with the flatpak version and I'm generally not a fan of how the flatpak version of obs handles plugins. Currently 5.0 is still a pre-release so the version that the flatpak uses is up to date, it's apparently just missing the presets.
The Problem
I have OBS Studio installed via a Flatpak on Fedora 35 Kinoite (rpm-ostree). I wanted to use this to help record videos I'm doing to teach people more about certain command-line tools, and I feel showing the key presses could be helpful to some. After installing OBS Studio and the Input Overlay extensions, I do see the Input Overlay option to add
I also used the Wiki to get the overlay presets for QWERTY. I think I loaded them up correctly.
However, no keyboard presses are showing up. Is there something else I need to do to get Input Overlay to work with OBS StudiO Flatpak?
Supporting Details
Fedora Version and Flatpak Version information.
You have to use the old presets from here, as the flatpak version uses the last stable release.
That did the trick! Thank you @univrsal ! I'm guessing that means that the Flatpak should be updated, or have a different channel to use your latest?
I don't have anything to do with the flatpak version and I'm generally not a fan of how the flatpak version of obs handles plugins. Currently 5.0 is still a pre-release so the version that the flatpak uses is up to date, it's apparently just missing the presets.