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  1. Kooha

    Elegantly record your screen

    1. There are reports here that Zoom works fine with Pipewire in the browser.

    2. Have you tried: https://github.com/SeaDve/Kooha ?

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  3. arcan

    Arcan - [Display Server, Multimedia Framework, Game Engine] -> "Desktop Engine"

    I really hope that Arcan has a future, if only for their crash resilient Wayland support. It can even cope with a GPU going away.

    https://arcan-fe.com/

  4. manjaro-sway

    manjaro linux with wayland 🖼, sway 🌴 and a lot of ♥

  5. Waybar

    Highly customizable Wayland bar for Sway and Wlroots based compositors. :v: :tada:

  6. wdisplays

    Mirror of cyclopsian/wdisplays (by artizirk)

  7. wl-clipboard

    Command-line copy/paste utilities for Wayland

  8. grim

    Discontinued Grab images from a Wayland compositor

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  10. slurp

    Select a region in a Wayland compositor

  11. dunst

    Lightweight and customizable notification daemon

  12. AutoKey

    AutoKey, a desktop automation utility for Linux and X11.

    The Zoom issue is related to the API they chose to use on Wayland. There's an API for sharing stuff like screens and windows, but Zoom is calling the GNOME (not even standard) screenshot API in a loop instead. As you might expect, that doesn't exactly work smoothly; performance is lacking and window coordinates would need to be tracked manually.

    There's a whole thread about it here (https://community.zoom.com/t5/Meetings/Wayland-screen-sharin...) but I don't think Zoom cares enough about their Linux client to fix these issues.

    I don't know about the shortcut issues you're facing, my guess would be the key logger protections built into wayland prevent your shortcut daemon from capturing the necessary keys. Autokey certainly runs into that problem (https://github.com/autokey/autokey/issues/87). Other programs seem to get similar features working, but not everyone had the time or expertise to bring out compatible versions of their software.

  13. Rectangle

    Move and resize windows on macOS with keyboard shortcuts and snap areas

  14. Electron

    :electron: Build cross-platform desktop apps with JavaScript, HTML, and CSS

    The frustration I see most from this is on hiDPI displays and any electron apps (which there are plenty)

    Supposedly it's been fixed recently: https://github.com/electron/electron/pull/29618

  15. Amethyst

    Automatic tiling window manager for macOS à la xmonad.

  16. dotfiles

    Collection of my dotfiles (by Sharparam)

    If anyone else finds themselves in my situation re: Spectacle, I put together this script which may or may not work (I've only tested it by dry-running it so far): https://github.com/Sharparam/dotfiles/blob/master/bin/sharps...

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