u/greywolfe_za

i've read the documentation a little and i understand kind of what i'm meant to do, but it is also somewhat confusing documentation.

what i want to do:

i have an obs setup in fedora 44 [this is the .rpm version and not the flatpak version of obs.]

i want to: route particular games [not the entire desktop] into obs, so that i ONLY pipe the game audio to the stream [and not the entire desktop.]

all the other sounds will be supplied as audio that just gets baked into obs itself and runs in the background. [eg: ambiance audio that compliments the stream setup.]

i know that: i first need to ascertain what's running on the machine with regards to audio inputs and outputs.

i know that i likely need to "lead" one of those outputs into a virtual audio sink.

i know that this needs to be added to a file and that - on startup - that file should be called in .bashrc [i think] - such that it runs AS SOON AS the computer gets going again if i want it to be persistent.

but the steps to do all of this are clear as mud: re: the pipewire documentation.

any help would be appreciated.

[i would also appreciate if anyone has a clean tutorial that just walks through this sort of thing that doesn't ambush you with a million different setups, etc.]

thank you so much for your help and time.

tl;dr: looking for 24 inch, 1920x1080p ips monitor with reasonable build quality that uses displayport for about $200.

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hello!

thank you for taking the time to read my post.

i am very confused by the monitor market [there's too many of them.]

i am in the market for small [for this day and age] monitor. specifically, ~24 inches that should be able to comfortably do 1920x1080 [by which i mean that things shouldn't be ant-sized :)] - i'm willing to spend up to about $200 [and i imagine i might be persuaded to spend a little more if something higher quality is suggested].

--- pc specifications ---

amd ryzen 5 9600x

32gb ram

amd radeon rx 9060 xt

os: linux (fedora 44)

--- end pc specifications ---

some of the reason i'm most interested in this form factor is my desk size constraints. anything much larger [say a 27 inch] MIGHT fit, but might also be a space hog.

i've moved to linux and i'm very aware of the hdmi situation there, so i want to shift over to displayport, because that's better supported.

i've had a philips [specifically the 234e for almost as long as that monitor has been alive] and i've really liked it so far [past the intial very blue tint it was factory set at.] - it's been a fine little ips monitor with great color gamut, no ghosting and reasonable reasonable [if low - more on that in a second] refresh rates.

in that vein, i'd like a monitor that will be about as long-lived, which is why i'm after reasonable build quality.

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some specific things that might be worth knowing about me:

i play games, but mostly slow games. old adventure games [sierra on-line stuff] and rpg's are my comfort zone. from this perspective, anything much past 60fps doesn't bother me much at all. most of the games i play are either old, or very indie.

while i have a rtx card on this machine, it is there mainly because i simply can't buy cards without that feature anymore. as such, i am interested in trying [but likely won't sit through] SOME faster games: cyberpunk 2077, indiana jones and the great circle and doom: the dark ages are the things i'm most interested in, and i don't t hink any of those games will utterly require refresh rates much past 60fps.

i would be good with sticking to ips. i had a tn monitor prior to that, and the colour difference between it and ips was day and night and i simply cannot go back.

one final thing: i'm visually impaired. some of the reason i'm holding on [for dear life] to 1920x1080, is because it's comfortable to read [often once i set some sort of scaling at the operating system level.]

bigger jumps in resolution just result in tinier text and i'm just not interested in going there until i'm forced. [in much the same way i was slowly nudged from 800x600 to 1920x1080.]

lastly: i'm in a very weird part of the world.

i have access to many of the usual suspects re: monitor makers, but i might not be able to get absolutely every version of every monitor.

that said, the short list of folks who do business here are: acer, asus, alienware, dell, lg, msi, philips [as previously mentioned] and samsung.

after that, it's a bunch of folks i don't necessarily recognize [i'm uneducated when it comes to who does good monitors, so...] - eg: xiaomi, rogueware, etc.

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thank you very much for taking the time to read this post. i am very grateful to those of you taking the time to respond to queries like mine.

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i didn't crosspost this initially, but i have functionally the same thread going in r/buildapcmonitors - i figure getting more input [even though the multiplicity of responses is also a little scary :)] is better than less.

hello!

thank you for taking the time to read my post.

i am very confused by the monitor market [there's too many of them.]

i am in the market for small [for this day and age] monitor. specifically, ~24 inches that should be able to comfortably do 1920x1080 [by which i mean that things shouldn't be ant-sized :)] - i'm willing to spend up to about $200 [and i imagine i might be persuaded to spend a little more if something higher quality is suggested].

some of the reason i'm most interested in this form factor is my desk size constraints. anything much larger [say a 27 inch] MIGHT fit, but might also be a space hog.

i've moved to linux and i'm very aware of the hdmi situation there, so i want to shift over to displayport, because that's better supported.

i've had a philips [specifically the 234e for almost as long as that monitor has been alive] and i've really liked it so far [past the intial very blue tint it was factory set at.] - it's been a fine little ips monitor with great color gamut, no ghosting and reasonable reasonable [if low - more on that in a second] refresh rates.

in that vein, i'd like a monitor that will be about as long-lived, which is why i'm after reasonable build quality.

---

some specific things that might be worth knowing about me:

i play games, but mostly slow games. old adventure games [sierra on-line stuff] and rpg's are my comfort zone. from this perspective, anything much past 60fps doesn't bother me much at all. most of the games i play are either old, or very indie.

while i have a rtx card on this machine, it is there mainly because i simply can't buy cards without that feature anymore. as such, i am interested in trying [but likely won't sit through] SOME faster games: cyberpunk 2077, indiana jones and the great circle and doom: the dark ages are the things i'm most interested in, and i don't t hink any of those games will utterly require refresh rates much past 60fps.

i would be good with sticking to ips. i had a tn monitor prior to that, and the colour difference between it and ips was day and night and i simply cannot go back.

one final thing: i'm visually impaired. some of the reason i'm holding on [for dear life] to 1920x1080, is because it's comfortable to read [often once i set some sort of scaling at the operating system level.]

bigger jumps in resolution just result in tinier text and i'm just not interested in going there until i'm forced. [in much the same way i was slowly nudged from 800x600 to 1920x1080.]

lastly: i'm in a very weird part of the world.

i have access to many of the usual suspects re: monitor makers, but i might not be able to get absolutely every version of every monitor.

that said, the short list of folks who do business here are: acer, asus, alienware, dell, lg, msi, philips [as previously mentioned] and samsung.

after that, it's a bunch of folks i don't necessarily recognize [i'm uneducated when it comes to who does good monitors, so...] - eg: xiaomi, rogueware, etc.

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thank you very much for taking the time to read this post. i am very grateful to those of you taking the time to respond to queries like mine.