ydotool
Generic command-line automation tool (no X!) (by ThePuppetMaster)
obs-kmsgrab
"Zero-copy" Linux screen capture plugin for OBS that uses libdrm and dmabuf (by w23)
| ydotool | obs-kmsgrab | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 3 | |
| 0 | 73 | |
| - | - | |
| 3.2 | 0.0 | |
| almost 3 years ago | over 1 year ago | |
| C | ||
| GNU Affero General Public License v3.0 | GNU General Public License v3.0 only |
The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
ydotool
Posts with mentions or reviews of ydotool.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-12-26.
obs-kmsgrab
Posts with mentions or reviews of obs-kmsgrab.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-03-25.
- OBS devs need to VERY seriously look into their Linux support
-
Is there any benefit to wayland?
Well, it can (Firefox is one example of dma-buf-based screencapturing in x11), but AFAIK obs still doesn't have such option out of the box (there is a plugin for that - https://github.com/w23/obs-kmsgrab, but I haven't tested it as there is not need for it on sway).
-
obs-nvfbc "Unable to get X driver status"
NVFBC won't work on PRIME, because with PRIME, your integrated GPU is driving the display. You want something like https://github.com/w23/obs-kmsgrab
What are some alternatives?
When comparing ydotool and obs-kmsgrab you can also consider the following projects:
wtype - xdotool type for wayland
obs-vkcapture - OBS Linux Vulkan/OpenGL game capture
xdg-desktop-portal-wlr - xdg-desktop-portal backend for wlroots
pipewire - Mirror of the PipeWire repository (see https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/pipewire/pipewire/)
screen-share-sway - Screen Sharing with OBS Studio on Arch Linux and Sway
obs-studio - OBS Studio - Free and open source software for live streaming and screen recording
steam-for-linux - Issue tracking for the Steam for Linux beta client