green-recorder
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green-recorder
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Think Twice Before Abandoning Xorg – Wayland Breaks Everything
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
wlroots
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Xorg being removed. What does this mean?
>barrier has been unmaintained for a long time.
As if not having new features added for 2 years makes it stop working? barrier is perfectly fine on normal linux desktop installs. I actually use synergy 1.x personally which has been "unmaintained" for much, much longer. Except synergy 1.x will compile and run on anything from windows 98 to ubuntu 5 to debian 12. You can't get a waynergy or inputleap to compile on an OS more than 2 years old. And even then, as you say, it's crapshoot if the particular wayland will have libei; many like sway are actively hostile to it and never will: https://github.com/swaywm/wlroots/issues/2378
- Does Wayland use less battery than x11 in Fedora Linux?
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Arch Linux odd question
It looks like they actually patched it to filter those modes out, so presumably it worked out of the box and was considered undesirable: https://github.com/swaywm/wlroots/issues/3038
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Asahi Linux To Users: Please Stop Using X.Org
I haven't experienced any of those. The video game performance hit may be due to vsync, but I don't play games so I haven't noticed.
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If I install a distro without a GUI, can I still launch graphical applications (like a Firefox window, for example)?
You can however use tinywl. It is an example Wayland compositor that can't do more than displaying one application.
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Nearest-neighbor scaling on XWayland apps?
Sway/wlroots has implemented this, but I can't find any discussion for KDE.
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Wofi is SO superior to Rofi
wlroots is archived on github. Is it abandoned? Just saying, that only means they moved git hosts :-D
- wayland-protocols update to allow tearing
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Wayland harder for DE developers?
A lot of compositors are based no the wlroots lirbary. So they are still sharing the development effort and have a common base, its just in the form of a library rather than a display server.
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What does gamescope output to?
gamescope use wlroots
What are some alternatives?
wf-recorder
wlroots-eglstreams - A modular Wayland compositor library with EGLStreams support
Jitsi Meet - Jitsi Meet - Secure, Simple and Scalable Video Conferences that you use as a standalone app or embed in your web application.
nvidia-patch - This patch removes restriction on maximum number of simultaneous NVENC video encoding sessions imposed by Nvidia to consumer-grade GPUs.
clipman - A simple clipboard manager for Wayland
leftwm - A tiling window manager for Adventurers
treestyletab - Tree Style Tab, Show tabs like a tree.
sway - i3-compatible Wayland compositor
wayfire - A modular and extensible wayland compositor
x11docker - Run GUI applications and desktops in docker and podman containers. Focus on security.
xdg-desktop-portal-wlr - xdg-desktop-portal backend for wlroots
libinput-gestures - Actions gestures on your touchpad using libinput