I tried the loopback devices, didnt work, at most i made a script that worked, but i want it to work for audacity:

cat > ~/Music/record-desktop.sh << 'EOF'
#!/bin/bash
OUTPUT="${1:-$HOME/Music/Recordings/recording-$(date +%Y%m%d-%H%M%S).wav}"
pw-record --target 0 "$OUTPUT" &
PID=$!
sleep 0.5
pw-link bluez_output.30:50:75:16:40:A6:monitor_FL pw-record:input_FL
pw-link bluez_output.30:50:75:16:40:A6:monitor_FR pw-record:input_FR
echo "Recording to $OUTPUT (PID $PID) — press Enter to stop"
read
kill $PID
echo "Done! Saved to $OUTPUT"
EOF
chmod +x ~/Music/record-desktop.sh

I am not using any app like qpwgraph to make connections, all i know is that this script works:

cat > ~/Music/record-desktop.sh << 'EOF'
#!/bin/bash
OUTPUT="${1:-$HOME/Music/Recordings/recording-$(date +%Y%m%d-%H%M%S).wav}"
pw-record --target 0 "$OUTPUT" &
PID=$!
sleep 0.5
pw-link bluez_output.30:50:75:16:40:A6:monitor_FL pw-record:input_FL
pw-link bluez_output.30:50:75:16:40:A6:monitor_FR pw-record:input_FR
echo "Recording to $OUTPUT (PID $PID) — press Enter to stop"
read
kill $PID
echo "Done! Saved to $OUTPUT"
EOF
chmod +x ~/Music/record-desktop.sh

as for everything else:

[spiderunderurbed@daspidercave:~/Music]$ systemctl status --user pipewire-pulse.service 
● pipewire-pulse.service - PipeWire PulseAudio
     Loaded: loaded (/etc/systemd/user/pipewire-pulse.service; linked-runtime; preset: ignored)
    Drop-In: /nix/store/admlblh3rvzwjyhvgl8wf5fdr44iqmgc-user-units/pipewire-pulse.service.d
             └─overrides.conf
     Active: active (running) since Thu 2026-02-26 18:55:45 NZDT; 23min ago
 Invocation: f234a6d525b844ba9ee769e0d46787ec
TriggeredBy: ● pipewire-pulse.socket
   Main PID: 3143 (pipewire-pulse)
      Tasks: 3 (limit: 18874)
     Memory: 14.5M (peak: 20.7M, swap: 2.5M, swap peak: 2.5M, zswap: 472.1K)
        CPU: 1.618s
     CGroup: /user.slice/user-1000.slice/user@1000.service/session.slice/pipewire-pulse.service
             └─3143 /nix/store/z8pz8hz2psggqsws4n7mzbbdghpcxm71-pipewire-1.4.9/bin/pipewire-pulse

Feb 26 18:55:45 daspidercave systemd[2666]: Started PipeWire PulseAudio.
Feb 26 18:55:45 daspidercave pipewire-pulse[3143]: mod.protocol-pulse: vm.overrides in pulse.properties are deprecated, use pulse.properties.ru>
Feb 26 18:55:45 daspidercave pipewire-pulse[3152]: pw.conf: execvp error 'pactl': No such file or directory
Feb 26 18:55:45 daspidercave pipewire-pulse[3154]: pw.conf: execvp error 'pactl': No such file or directory

[spiderunderurbed@daspidercave:~/Music]$ systemctl status --user pipewire-alsa
Unit pipewire-alsa.service could not be found.
[ble: exit 4]

[spiderunderurbed@daspidercave:~/Music]$ systemctl status --user pipewire-alsa.service
Unit pipewire-alsa.service could not be found.
[ble: exit 4]

[spiderunderurbed@daspidercave:~/Music]$ 

I managed to fix it for pw-record, I dont know how to get it working for audacity:

cat > ~/Music/record-desktop.sh << 'EOF'
#!/bin/bash
OUTPUT="${1:-$HOME/Music/Recordings/recording-$(date +%Y%m%d-%H%M%S).wav}"
pw-record --target 0 "$OUTPUT" &
PID=$!
sleep 0.5
pw-link bluez_output.30:50:75:16:40:A6:monitor_FL pw-record:input_FL
pw-link bluez_output.30:50:75:16:40:A6:monitor_FR pw-record:input_FR
echo "Recording to $OUTPUT (PID $PID) — press Enter to stop"
read
kill $PID
echo "Done! Saved to $OUTPUT"
EOF
chmod +x ~/Music/record-desktop.sh

I dont think i ever set AV1 encoding inside OBS, looking at my settings, it just shows h.264:

I tried nvidia-offload, as I set up PRIME awhile ago, it didnt help, here is the logs, if its useful: https://pastebin.com/CiJ4Zyjw

Idk if OBS would actually respect the GPU being handed to it, or if it’ll do something weird with screen capture, its weird per-gpu settings is not a option with OBS, if this is a OBS bug, i can file a bug report. Hopefully it can be resolved here.

I have the hyprland portals installed, and the kde ones, due to some issue I had to explicitly install them so idk if that will mess with the way applications handle it, assuming not, and yes I have two gpus, one dgpu, and one igpu, the dgpu is directly connected to my hdmi, does OBS stuggle with 2 gpus? still, that sounds like it would be a issue with capturing the monitor managed by my igpu. Not a reason to stop a second pipewire capture.

What logs do you need? I provided some from running OBS but i assume it isnt enough, what logs should I collect, or is there a flag i need to run with OBS

Weird it’s called clicker when you can do key presses too, but I’ll check it out. It looks like it fulfills my use case

If it works on wayland then yes

What’s the difference between this and ydotool

Unfortunately it ain’t a gui

Would signal also work?

I feel like github should have verified repositories

??? He said he talked to the principal multiple times