wf-recorder

wlroots-based compositors had screen capture for a long time. I'm not sure about Gnome. <https://wayland.app/protocols/wlr-screencopy-unstable-v1> <https://sr.ht/~emersion/grim/> <https://github.com/ammen99/wf-recorder>

How long ago was this? Screen sharing[0] and capture[1] works fine in wlroots. [0]: Supported with workarounds circa 2020, most were merged by 2022 - https://github.com/emersion/xdg-desktop-portal-wlr/wiki/Screencast-Compatibility [1]: I've had success using `wf-recorder` https://github.com/ammen99/wf-recorder

True. For "wl-roots"-based compositors like swaywm, check out wf-recorder[1]. [1]https://github.com/ammen99/wf-recorder

I use `wf-recorder`- it should work well, has worked well for me. https://github.com/ammen99/wf-recorder

Wfrecorder [0] is what I use, doesn't have a fancy gui but it just works 0: https://github.com/ammen99/wf-recorder

If you're using a wlroots compositor, then a workaround for sharing the whole screen is to use wf-recorder [1], which supports capturing the whole screen, and feeding its output to a virtual V4L2 device using v4l2loopback [2]. Software that is able to capture from a V4L2-compatible webcam (i.e. most) can them capture from the virtual device without knowing anything about Wayland. It's not exactly the most CPU-efficient way of doing things, but if you can afford the cycles it works very well! [1] https://github.com/ammen99/wf-recorder [2] https://github.com/umlaeute/v4l2loopback

A great tool for screen recording with wl-roots is wf-recorder (https://github.com/ammen99/wf-recorder) for example: wf-recorder --audio -f video_$(date +%F).mp4 --geometry $(slurp) lets me select a region of my screen via slurp and then records my microphone and the screen area to the specified file.

You want to use wf-recorder. This is in my sway config: > set $screenrecord wf-recorder -g "$(slurp)" -f ~/screenshots/mov-$(date +"%Y-%m-%d--%H-%M-%S.mp4") > bindsym Shift+Control+F6 exec $screenrecord > bindsym Ctrl+Shift+BackSpace exec killall -s SIGINT wf-recorder Hitting shift-control-f6 will spawn slurp which lets you click and drag to set the area you want to record. This will then launch wf-recorder and record the selected area, saving to ~/screenshots/mov-${date}. You can use ctrl-shift-backspace to kill the recorder and end recording. https://github.com/ammen99/wf-recorder https://github.com/emersion/slurp

OBS can capture wlroots based compositors with the wlrobs[0] plugin. Give it a shot, it's really smooth for me. There's also wl-recorder[1] which is much more light weight if you don't need any of the fancier features. Also, cyanreg is working on txproto[2] which is a much faster/feature rich version of wl-recorder, although I'm not sure it is ready for prime time as it uses a couple bleeding edge libs. [0] https://hg.sr.ht/~scoopta/wlrobs [1] https://github.com/ammen99/wf-recorder [2] https://github.com/cyanreg/txproto

I am not the author of dwl. Since dwl is based on wlroots (just like the popular Sway) it already supports making screenshots using grim[1] and screencasts using wf-recorder[2]. You can try out dwl from within your current WM. The default modkey is Alt. If you want to use the Super key, change `#define MODKEY WLR_MODIFIER_ALT` in `config.h` to `#define MODKEY WLR_MODIFIER_LOGO` and recompile. The default terminal emulator is kitty but you can change `termcmd` to alacritty if you want. Currently, only native Wayland applications run on it. You can enable experimental Wayland support for Firefox with `MOZ_ENABLE_WAYLAND=1`, see Running programs natively under Wayland in Sway Wiki[3]. Do not hover over the edges of windows – this will crash dwl. [1]: https://github.com/emersion/grim [2]: https://github.com/ammen99/wf-recorder [3]: https://gi

Pipewire [0] (the successor to PulseAudio) attempts to streamline this process for Linux. I've been messing with wf-recorder [1] for my screen+audio recordings, and might try to get it to spoof a camera input so I can get any program attempting to connect to the webcam to instead turn into a screen-casting tool. [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PipeWire [1]: https://github.com/ammen99/wf-recorder

Sway 1.4 (wayland window manager), just released, has this in the changelog: Support for VNC via wayvnc. https://github.com/swaywm/sway/releases Wayland/wl-roots compatible screen-recorder: https://github.com/ammen99/wf-recorder