Can't find OBS plugins folder

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Hello,

Requirements:

I have Searched the forum for my issue and found nothing related or helpful
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OpenMandriva Lx version: Rock 6.0

Desktop environment (KDE, LXQT…):

KDE

Description of the issue (screenshots if relevant):

I want to install some plugin for OBS studio and I don’t know how it’s done.

The page OBS website says all I need to do is paste the downloaded plugin to ~/.config/obs-studio/plugins but I am not finding an obs folder in the .config directory.

Seems easy but I’m stumped.

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So I found /usr/share/obs/obs-plugins and copied some plugins to that folder hoping that would do it.
It didn’t.
Any more knowledge welcome.

Also, it looks like I installed through flatpak. I though I used dragora but yum extender has it listed as a flatpak.

[Edit: I reinstalled in dragora without flatpak and that gave me the path /.config/obs-studio/plugin_config but copying files to this folder has NOT given me any plugins yet.]

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If installed from dnf the files are in ~/.config/obs-studio/

If you installed with flatpak the files are in ~/.var/app/com.obsproject.Studio/config/obs-studio/

Every config you install for any flatpak app will have it’s files in a hidden folder in your user’s home folder.

.var/app/appropriate-app-name-here

If you use the flatpak for obs studio you can install a lot of plugins by using flatpak and they will install themselves in the appropriate place.

You can find a list of the ones you can install on Install OBS Studio on Linux | Flathub
At the bottom of that page go to the “add ons” tab.

Also, dont forget that if you have obs open and running while you install a plugin you have to restart obs in order for it to see the new plugin.

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Thanks. Good to know where the flatpak config files go.

Still wasn’t working after moving the file to the right folder, so installed the flatpak again and installing a flathub plugin works. Unfortuntaly, manual install still hasn’t worked. I must be missing something but for now I can play with the available flathub plugins.

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