green-recorder VS clipman

Compare green-recorder vs clipman and see what are their differences.

green-recorder

A simple screen recorder for Linux desktop. Supports Wayland & Xorg (by mhsabbagh)

clipman

A simple clipboard manager for Wayland (by yory8)
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green-recorder clipman
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0.0 0.0
over 4 years ago 8 months ago
Python Go
GNU General Public License v3.0 only GNU General Public License v3.0 only
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green-recorder

Posts with mentions or reviews of green-recorder. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-02-02.
  • Think Twice Before Abandoning Xorg – Wayland Breaks Everything
    8 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 2 Feb 2021
    As the developer of Green Recorder [1], the second example referred to in this page, I have to say that it sounds my abandonment statement is taken out of context.

    In order to support recording on different Wayland compositors (without having to develop tons of other middle layers by yourself), one would need to simply activate their built-in screencasting tool according the specified user settings. This took me a bit of time to figure out for GNOME, and I had to fill a bug-report to speak to one of the compositor developers to understand how to do that, as no documentation was available at all. Even so, some hidden bugs appeared (Quality wasn't too good, audio had to be recorded separately over ffmpeg, and then both audio and video had to be merged together in one file, V9 had a bug that consumes 100% of CPU on some hardware, so we had to use V8 by default... etc).

    In order to go further, I had to do the same thing for KWin on Wayland, Sway and other compositors out there in the market and then integrate them into my program. I had to find some workarounds for any bugs that may occur.

    Later on, some changes for ffmpeg API broke the Xorg recording (Green Recorder used ffmpeg to record on all desktop environments on Xorg), so I had to do more testing now for multiple versions of ffmpeg and on which distro do they work and don't work.

    So I just gave up, as I simply didn't find any particular reason to continue doing that since the only amount of support I received on my then-opened Patreon was $20 per month at its max.

    But it shouldn't be said that Wayland can not support screencasting or that it breaks screencasting. It is possible, and the previously mentioned issues are actually on the compositors' developers side, not the protocol.

    1: https://github.com/mhsabbagh/green-recorder

clipman

Posts with mentions or reviews of clipman. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-02-15.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing green-recorder and clipman you can also consider the following projects:

wf-recorder

cliphist - wayland clipboard manager with support for multimedia

Jitsi Meet - Jitsi Meet - Secure, Simple and Scalable Video Conferences that you use as a standalone app or embed in your web application.

wl-clipboard - Command-line copy/paste utilities for Wayland

treestyletab - Tree Style Tab, Show tabs like a tree.

sway - i3-compatible Wayland compositor

wayvnc - A VNC server for wlroots based Wayland compositors

gnome-shell-extension-clipboard-indicator - Clipboard Manager extension for Gnome-Shell - Adds a clipboard indicator to the top panel, and saves text and images clipboard.

swappy - A Wayland native snapshot editing tool, inspired by Snappy on macOS

gnome-shell-extension-clipboard-indicator - The most popular clipboard manager for GNOME, with over 1M downloads

kanshi - Dynamic display configuration (mirror)