obs-kmsgrab
"Zero-copy" Linux screen capture plugin for OBS that uses libdrm and dmabuf (by w23)
xdg-desktop-portal-wlr
xdg-desktop-portal backend for wlroots (by emersion)
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| 3 | 68 | |
| 73 | 561 | |
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| 0.0 | 6.3 | |
| over 1 year ago | 17 days ago | |
| C | C | |
| GNU General Public License v3.0 only | MIT License |
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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
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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).
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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
xdg-desktop-portal-wlr
Posts with mentions or reviews of xdg-desktop-portal-wlr.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-04-11.
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How do I configure xdg-desktop-portal so that it works and keeps working?
It comes with a systemd service file https://github.com/emersion/xdg-desktop-portal-wlr/blob/master/contrib/systemd/xdg-desktop-portal-wlr.service.in that you can use
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How do you guys screenshare Sway on Discord?
Are you running the Wayland envvar for Firefox, MOZ_ENABLE_WAYLAND=1? Because the rest of your setup sounds very similar to my (working) setup. You could also run the Python test script included with xdg-desktop-portal-wlr (bottom of this page) as a sanity check that nothing's going wrong there
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Which technology / protocol etc. is the next big thing, coming the next few years in Linux gaming?
- Global hotkey portal
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Is there any way to screenshare only a single window?
Not yet: https://github.com/emersion/xdg-desktop-portal-wlr/issues/107
- Xfce 4.18, and the Future of the Desktop
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Moving from a DE, loss of functionality?
You'll need this
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Tearing updates got merged into Wayland! Now we only have to wait for implementations in KWin and Gnome!
I believe that a lot of the current approach to fixing it is something similar to xdg-desktop-portal. That's for signaling for screenshots, but a similar idea could work for listening for key events without being focused, apparently. It bypasses the standard Wayland system completely and uses D-Bus and Pipewire instead. I'm not too familiar with the details myself, though.
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PSA: Steam Link (Remote Play) works on Wayland with AMD GPU
I don't know which of the xdg-desktop-portal backends you would need for gamescope, but xdg-desktop-portal-wlr has a config file which it reads where you can set the preferred output and set the chooser_type to none. That makes it skip the screen selector for me.
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flameshot not working in sway (typing "flameshot gui" hangs in the terminal)
See these links for more info: * flameshot: flameshot gui from cli does nothing. dbus error UnknownMethod: "No such interface “org.freedesktop.portal.Screenshot” #2872 * xdg-desktop-portal: No such interface “org.freedesktop.portal.Screenshot” on object at path /org/freedesktop/portal/desktop #861 * xdg-desktop-portal-wlr: screenshot: Announce version property
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sway inverted screen sharing
This is a known issue: https://github.com/emersion/xdg-desktop-portal-wlr/issues/83
What are some alternatives?
When comparing obs-kmsgrab and xdg-desktop-portal-wlr you can also consider the following projects:
obs-vkcapture - OBS Linux Vulkan/OpenGL game capture
sway - i3-compatible Wayland compositor
ydotool - Generic command-line automation tool (no X!)
xdg-desktop-portal-gtk - Gtk implementation of xdg-desktop-portal
pipewire - Mirror of the PipeWire repository (see https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/pipewire/pipewire/)
wayvnc - A VNC server for wlroots based Wayland compositors
screen-share-sway - Screen Sharing with OBS Studio on Arch Linux and Sway
wlroots - A modular Wayland compositor library
obs-studio - OBS Studio - Free and open source software for live streaming and screen recording
v4l2loopback - v4l2-loopback device
steam-for-linux - Issue tracking for the Steam for Linux beta client
flameshot - Powerful yet simple to use screenshot software :desktop_computer: :camera_flash:
obs-kmsgrab vs obs-vkcapture
xdg-desktop-portal-wlr vs sway
obs-kmsgrab vs ydotool
xdg-desktop-portal-wlr vs xdg-desktop-portal-gtk
obs-kmsgrab vs pipewire
xdg-desktop-portal-wlr vs wayvnc
obs-kmsgrab vs screen-share-sway
xdg-desktop-portal-wlr vs wlroots
obs-kmsgrab vs obs-studio
xdg-desktop-portal-wlr vs v4l2loopback
obs-kmsgrab vs steam-for-linux
xdg-desktop-portal-wlr vs flameshot