Linux @sh.itjust.works majestic @sh.itjust.works 4mo ago

Record a Window on Wayland

Hello. Im trying to figure out, how to record a Window on wayland and i need your help. I know there is such a thing in X11, but none of screen recorders ive tried on wayland support it. I could just go with full screen recording and edit it later, but i want background be transparent, and dont want to make extra job every time.

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Works fine with OBS Studio (Flathub) for example.

Add a "Screen Capture (PipeWire)" source and a window should pop up asking for which screen or application window you want to capture.

Works with KDE and GNOME, not sure about other desktop environments.
- Interesting... I use Hyprland. I have to check it out.
  
  For hyprland, make sure you're using xdg-desktop-portal-hyprland since otherwise you won't get window sharing
  
  (see https://wiki.hyprland.org/Useful-Utilities/xdg-desktop-portal-hyprland/)
https://git.dec05eba.com/gpu-screen-recorder/about/

Works amazingly well.