diff --git a/modules/desktop/noctalia/default.nix b/modules/desktop/noctalia/default.nix
index e38a78e..8a65e8f 100644
--- a/modules/desktop/noctalia/default.nix
+++ b/modules/desktop/noctalia/default.nix
@@ -1,6 +1,12 @@
 {self, ...}: {
   flake.modules = {
-    nixos.noctalia.nixpkgs.overlays = [self.overlays.pkgs];
+    nixos.noctalia = {
+      nixpkgs.overlays = [self.overlays.pkgs];
+
+      # The screen recorder plugin captures the monitor directly, which needs the
+      # sys_admin capped gsr-kms-server wrapper instead of a portal session.
+      programs.gpu-screen-recorder.enable = true;
+    };
 
     homeManager.noctalia = {lib, ...}: let
       inherit (lib) mkEnableOption;
diff --git a/modules/desktop/noctalia/plugins.nix b/modules/desktop/noctalia/plugins.nix
index 3a69384..b2c6f43 100644
--- a/modules/desktop/noctalia/plugins.nix
+++ b/modules/desktop/noctalia/plugins.nix
@@ -38,7 +38,6 @@
       packages = with pkgs; [
         # keep-sorted start
         fzf
-        gpu-screen-recorder
         hyprpicker
         performance-mode
         udiskie
@@ -85,6 +84,9 @@
           copy_to_clipboard = true;
           directory = "${videosDir}/Recordings";
           video_codec = "hevc";
+          # Portal capture cannot get multi-plane dma-buf frames from
+          # xdg-desktop-portal-hyprland, so capture the monitor directly.
+          video_source = "focused";
           # keep-sorted end
         };