wl-mirror VS wf-recorder

Maybe try https://github.com/Ferdi265/wl-mirror, since it says it should work on all wlroots compositors.

New to Sway here too, but for mirroring I've been looking Ferdi265/wl-mirror: a simple Wayland output mirror client - GitHub https://github.com/Ferdi265/wl-mirror

Have you tried wl-mirror ?

A key thing to remember with Wayland and external monitors or projectors: it will appear as a separate desktop, just like if you had two monitors and mirroring is not built in (and it does not appear it ever will be). If you want to mirror your screen, you'll have to use something like wl-mirror, which is actually really simple and slick.

mirroring screen during presentations: try [wl-mirror](https://github.com/Ferdi265/wl-mirror). I have, and it worked great.

I think you might be better off using something like https://github.com/Ferdi265/wl-mirror

re mirroring - you can try https://github.com/Ferdi265/wl-mirror (it was mentioned recently in this reddit). I tried it and it works quite nicely

Try wf-recorder.

The closest thing is probably wf-recorder.

The spec is designed to be minimal and it's expected for compositors to work together and add additional features, for example here is the tool for screen recording on wlroots compositors (sway and what most wayland WM's use) https://github.com/ammen99/wf-recorder, even though most people claim wayland doesn't support screen-recording/screenshotting. We just don't have a universal tool for that that works on all compositors, pipewire however seems to be coming to fill that niche.

If you are on Wayland, wf-recorder Is a good choice .

As for screen recording, I’ve used wf-recorder (IIRC, not at PC atm) several times the past couple of weeks, works equally well.

The issue I'm encountering is described here in more detail (including images).

Wfrecorder [0] is what I use, doesn't have a fancy gui but it just works

0: https://github.com/ammen99/wf-recorder

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

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