#Fullscreen Causes Flickering and Glitches in OBS and Discord Capture

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umbral birch
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Discord screensharing and OBS capture flicker or glitch whenever I fullscreen any application, game or even just a YouTube video.
I don’t see any flicker on my display, the issue only appears in the capture+preview, and the app GPU Screen Recorder isn’t affected.

I left a small OBS window visible on the side of the video, even the preview flickers, and Discord behaves the same way.

here’s my fastfetch

davekai@fedora:~$ fastfetch 
             .',;::::;,'.                 davekai@fedora
         .';:cccccccccccc:;,.             --------------
      .;cccccccccccccccccccccc;.          OS: Fedora Linux 43 (Workstation Edition) x86_64
    .:cccccccccccccccccccccccccc:.        Host: MS-7C56 (1.0)
  .;ccccccccccccc;.:dddl:.;ccccccc;.      Kernel: Linux 6.18.8-200.fc43.x86_64
 .:ccccccccccccc;OWMKOOXMWd;ccccccc:.     Uptime: 3 hours, 44 mins
.:ccccccccccccc;KMMc;cc;xMMc;ccccccc:.    Packages: 2640 (rpm), 42 (flatpak)
,cccccccccccccc;MMM.;cc;;WW:;cccccccc,    Shell: bash 5.3.0
:cccccccccccccc;MMM.;cccccccccccccccc:    Display (Microstep 25"): 1920x1080 in 25", 200 Hz [External] *
:ccccccc;oxOOOo;MMM000k.;cccccccccccc:    Display (HP LA2306): 1920x1080 in 23", 60 Hz [External]
cccccc;0MMKxdd:;MMMkddc.;cccccccccccc;    DE: GNOME 49.3
ccccc;XMO';cccc;MMM.;cccccccccccccccc'    WM: Mutter (Wayland)
ccccc;MMo;ccccc;MMW.;ccccccccccccccc;     WM Theme: davekai
ccccc;0MNc.ccc.xMMd;ccccccccccccccc;      Theme: adw-gtk3-dark [GTK2/3/4]
cccccc;dNMWXXXWM0:;cccccccccccccc:,       Icons: Adwaita [GTK2/3/4]
cccccccc;.:odl:.;cccccccccccccc:,.        Font: Inter (10.5pt) [GTK2/3/4]
ccccccccccccccccccccccccccccc:'.          Cursor: macOS (22px)
:ccccccccccccccccccccccc:;,..             Terminal: Ptyxis 49.2
 ':cccccccccccccccc::;,.                  Terminal Font: JetBrains Mono (11pt)
                                          CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 5700X (16) @ 4.67 GHz
                                          GPU: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 [Discrete]
                                          Memory: 7.45 GiB / 15.53 GiB (48%)

davekai@fedora:~$ nvidia-smi
Tue Feb 10 14:52:39 2026       
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| NVIDIA-SMI 580.119.02             Driver Version: 580.119.02     CUDA Version: 13.0     |

How I installed drivers/codecs/cuda
https://rpmfusion.org/Howto/NVIDIA
https://rpmfusion.org/Howto/Secure Boot
https://rpmfusion.org/Howto/Multimedia
https://rpmfusion.org/Howto/CUDA

undone rose
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steep brook
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thats a gnome problem, but i should have been fixed for some years

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as a workaround you can use a window capture instead of screen

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(itll lower performance probably)

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can you also check which xdg-desktop-portal you have installed?

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maybe you're not using the gnome one

umbral birch
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orchid martenBOT
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umbral birch
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davekai@fedora:~$ which xdg-desktop-portal
/usr/bin/which: no xdg-desktop-portal in (/home/davekai/.cargo/bin:/home/davekai/.local/bin:/home/davekai/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin)
davekai@fedora:~$
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also for some reason on sunshine remote streaming, it doesn't happen

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davekai@fedora:~$ sudo dnf install xdg-desktop-portal-gnome
Updating and loading repositories:
Repositories loaded.
Package "xdg-desktop-portal-gnome-49.0-1.fc43.x86_64" is already installed.

Nothing to do.
davekai@fedora:~$
umbral birch