I can't screencast in Wayfire

Hello, I'm not new to Archlinux but I am new to most things Wayland. I installed Garuda Wayfire, but I am having trouble figuring out a solution to this problem of not being able to record my screen. I've consulted various wiki's, and I am not finding a solution. Any help would be appreciated.

Hello.

Post your terminal/konsole in- and output as text (no pictures) from:

inxi -Faz
System:    Kernel: 5.15.5-zen1-1-zen x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 11.1.0
           parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/@/boot/vmlinuz-linux-zen
           root=UUID=21c46ada-6c46-4b03-a306-dd3c5c7d708d rw rootflags=subvol=@ quiet splash
           rd.udev.log_priority=3 vt.global_cursor_default=0 systemd.unified_cgroup_hierarchy=1
           loglevel=3
           Desktop: N/A wm: wlroots wm vt: 1 dm: N/A Distro: Garuda Linux base: Arch Linux
Machine:   Type: Laptop System: LENOVO product: 2349BZ8 v: ThinkPad T430
           serial: <superuser required> Chassis: type: 10 serial: <superuser required>
           Mobo: LENOVO model: 2349BZ8 serial: <superuser required> UEFI: LENOVO
           v: G1ETB7WW (2.77 ) date: 06/05/2018
Battery:   ID-1: BAT0 charge: 44.3 Wh (96.5%) condition: 45.9/47.5 Wh (96.5%) volts: 11.8
           min: 10.8 model: LGC 45N1005 type: Li-ion serial: <filter> status: Unknown
CPU:       Info: Dual Core model: Intel Core i7-3520M bits: 64 type: MT MCP arch: Ivy Bridge
           family: 6 model-id: 3A (58) stepping: 9 microcode: 21 cache: L1: 128 KiB L2: 512 KiB
           L3: 4 MiB
           flags: avx ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx bogomips: 23146
           Speed: 1634 MHz min/max: 1200/3600 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 1634 2: 2948 3: 3324
           4: 2853
           Vulnerabilities: Type: itlb_multihit status: KVM: VMX disabled
           Type: l1tf mitigation: PTE Inversion; VMX: conditional cache flushes, SMT vulnerable
           Type: mds mitigation: Clear CPU buffers; SMT vulnerable
           Type: meltdown mitigation: PTI
           Type: spec_store_bypass mitigation: Speculative Store Bypass disabled via prctl
           Type: spectre_v1 mitigation: usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer sanitization
           Type: spectre_v2 mitigation: Full generic retpoline, IBPB: conditional, IBRS_FW,
           STIBP: conditional, RSB filling
           Type: srbds status: Vulnerable: No microcode
           Type: tsx_async_abort status: Not affected
Graphics:  Device-1: Intel 3rd Gen Core processor Graphics vendor: Lenovo driver: i915 v: kernel
           bus-ID: 00:02.0 chip-ID: 8086:0166 class-ID: 0300
           Device-2: Acer Integrated Camera type: USB driver: uvcvideo bus-ID: 1-1.6:5
           chip-ID: 5986:02d5 class-ID: 0e02
           Display: wayland server: X.Org 1.21.1.3 compositor: wayfire driver: loaded: i915
           note: n/a (using device driver) display-ID: :0 screens: 1
           Screen-1: 0 s-res: 1600x900 s-dpi: 96 s-size: 423x238mm (16.7x9.4")
           s-diag: 485mm (19.1")
           Monitor-1: XWAYLAND0 res: 1600x900 hz: 60 dpi: 131 size: 310x170mm (12.2x6.7")
           diag: 354mm (13.9")
           OpenGL: renderer: Mesa DRI Intel HD Graphics 4000 (IVB GT2) v: 4.2 Mesa 21.2.5
           compat-v: 3.0 direct render: Yes
Audio:     Device-1: Intel 7 Series/C216 Family High Definition Audio vendor: Lenovo
           driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 00:1b.0 chip-ID: 8086:1e20 class-ID: 0403
           Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k5.15.5-zen1-1-zen running: yes
           Sound Server-2: sndio v: N/A running: no
           Sound Server-3: JACK v: 1.9.19 running: no
           Sound Server-4: PulseAudio v: 15.0 running: no
           Sound Server-5: PipeWire v: 0.3.40 running: yes
Network:   Device-1: Intel 82579LM Gigabit Network vendor: Lenovo driver: e1000e v: kernel
           port: 6080 bus-ID: 00:19.0 chip-ID: 8086:1502 class-ID: 0200
           IF: enp0s25 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter>
           Device-2: Intel Centrino Advanced-N 6205 [Taylor Peak] driver: iwlwifi v: kernel
           bus-ID: 03:00.0 chip-ID: 8086:0085 class-ID: 0280
           IF: wlp3s0 state: down mac: <filter>
           IF-ID-1: anbox0 state: down mac: <filter>
Bluetooth: Device-1: Broadcom BCM20702 Bluetooth 4.0 [ThinkPad] type: USB driver: btusb v: 0.8
           bus-ID: 1-1.4:4 chip-ID: 0a5c:21e6 class-ID: fe01 serial: <filter>
           Report: bt-adapter ID: hci0 rfk-id: 2 state: up address: <filter>
Drives:    Local Storage: total: 232.89 GiB used: 17.24 GiB (7.4%)
           SMART Message: Required tool smartctl not installed. Check --recommends
           ID-1: /dev/sda maj-min: 8:0 vendor: Samsung model: SSD 850 EVO M.2 250GB
           size: 232.89 GiB block-size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B speed: 6.0 Gb/s type: SSD
           serial: <filter> rev: 1B6Q scheme: GPT
Partition: ID-1: / raw-size: 73.24 GiB size: 73.24 GiB (100.00%) used: 17.24 GiB (23.5%)
           fs: btrfs dev: /dev/sda2 maj-min: 8:2
           ID-2: /boot/efi raw-size: 300 MiB size: 299.4 MiB (99.80%) used: 576 KiB (0.2%)
           fs: vfat dev: /dev/sda1 maj-min: 8:1
           ID-3: /home raw-size: 73.24 GiB size: 73.24 GiB (100.00%) used: 17.24 GiB (23.5%)
           fs: btrfs dev: /dev/sda2 maj-min: 8:2
           ID-4: /var/log raw-size: 73.24 GiB size: 73.24 GiB (100.00%) used: 17.24 GiB (23.5%)
           fs: btrfs dev: /dev/sda2 maj-min: 8:2
           ID-5: /var/tmp raw-size: 73.24 GiB size: 73.24 GiB (100.00%) used: 17.24 GiB (23.5%)
           fs: btrfs dev: /dev/sda2 maj-min: 8:2
Swap:      Kernel: swappiness: 133 (default 60) cache-pressure: 100 (default)
           ID-1: swap-1 type: zram size: 7.58 GiB used: 77 MiB (1.0%) priority: 100
           dev: /dev/zram0
Sensors:   System Temperatures: cpu: 44.0 C mobo: N/A
           Fan Speeds (RPM): fan-1: 2588
Info:      Processes: 261 Uptime: 1h 33m wakeups: 53 Memory: 7.59 GiB used: 3.09 GiB (40.7%)
           Init: systemd v: 249 tool: systemctl Compilers: gcc: 11.1.0 clang: 13.0.0
           Packages: 1669 pacman: 1664 lib: 376 flatpak: 5 Shell: fish v: 3.3.1 default: Bash
           v: 5.1.12 running-in: alacritty inxi: 3.3.09

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Report everything you have already attempted to solve your problem.
installed flatpak OBS with wayland support
installed xdg-desktop-portal-gnome, kde
Tried to install a couple of github workarounds that basically was
installing xdg-desktop-portal
that turned out to be junk.
Tried different versions of OBS, vokoscreen, or simplescreenrecorder
Verified that pipewire was installed.
I probably did a few other things that I can't remember.
Any help would be appreciated.

Install

sudo paru -Syu obs-studio wlrobs xdg-desktop-portal-wlr

Wlrobs is a obs-studio plugin for wlr based compositer.

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I guess I was missing wlrobs. Thanks. That worked. [SOLVED]

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