xdg-desktop-portal-wlr
xdg-desktop-portal backend for wlroots (by emersion)
swappy
A Wayland native snapshot editing tool, inspired by Snappy on macOS (by jtheoof)
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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.
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
swappy
Posts with mentions or reviews of swappy.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-07-09.
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MSPaint like tool for Linux
I think swappy works great as a screenshot annotation tool.
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Trying to use Swappy for the First Time
It will save the file in save_dir (see config section)
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Suggest me: Screenshot tool with anotation
Use any wayland compatible screenshot tool and pipe it into Swappy
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bindsym not working with flameshot
I combine grimshot + swappy to get something similar to Flameshot. Not as good, but it has the advantage of... actually working on Sway.
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How I chose the right screenshot tool for my Linux
I personally use grim + slurp + swappy, and i love it! :)
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redshift like gui application
If you want to edit the screenshot, pipe it through swappy
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swaywm color picker
For those sort of simple jobs, you might find that swappy is enough (and much faster to start and simpler to use).
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Screenshot in Sway
My fav is swappy.
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Lighter alternative to GIMP?
Sounds like Swappy. https://github.com/jtheoof/swappy
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What apps are you running on Sway? (Wayland Native Apps of course)
Screenshots: grim + slurp + swappy
What are some alternatives?
When comparing xdg-desktop-portal-wlr and swappy you can also consider the following projects:
sway - i3-compatible Wayland compositor
grim - Grab images from a Wayland compositor
xdg-desktop-portal-gtk - Gtk implementation of xdg-desktop-portal
mpv-image-viewer - Configuration, scripts and tips for using mpv as an image viewer
wayvnc - A VNC server for wlroots based Wayland compositors
sway-borders - Fork of sway with some extra features, mainly related to borders.
wlroots - A modular Wayland compositor library
qutebrowser - A keyboard-driven, vim-like browser based on Python and Qt.
v4l2loopback - v4l2-loopback device
clipman - A simple clipboard manager for Wayland
flameshot - Powerful yet simple to use screenshot software :desktop_computer: :camera_flash:
xdg-desktop-portal-wlr vs sway
swappy vs grim
xdg-desktop-portal-wlr vs xdg-desktop-portal-gtk
swappy vs mpv-image-viewer
xdg-desktop-portal-wlr vs wayvnc
swappy vs sway-borders
xdg-desktop-portal-wlr vs wlroots
swappy vs qutebrowser
xdg-desktop-portal-wlr vs v4l2loopback
swappy vs clipman
xdg-desktop-portal-wlr vs flameshot
swappy vs flameshot