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> Screen recording works with Gnome's built in recorder. okay, but what if I don't like gnome ? e.g. I had to record a screencap of a bug of a software (that,

> Screen recording works with Gnome's built in recorder. okay, but what if I don't like gnome ? e.g. I had to record a screencap of a bug of a software (that, uh, occurs only under wayland) so I went under weston and, well apparently there is also a screen capture tool but it is incompatible. On X11 I use simplescreenrecorder no matter the desktop (I mostly use i3wm or KDE Plasma depending on the circumstances). Also what's the way to set a different keymap, that would work for any wayland compositor ? `setxkbmap` used to work but doesn't anymore and this is fairly frustrating and I really really don't want to have to learn one command per compositor. Moving windows (or even the mouse cursor) also feels absolutely sluggish on wayland, like the frame rate is halved. X11 / i3 : https://streamable.com/fo8ixw https://streamable.com/fo8ixw weston-eglstream : https://streamable.com/wmp6vy https://streamable.com/wmp6vy Also switching in/out from a wayland tty apparently gets it stuck here. etc etc... it's just painful from start to end

roblabla 6y ago
> okay, but what if I don't like gnome ? Under X11, the screen capture and recording doesn't work when one of my screen is scaled and rotated. The capture will turn entirely black, even when capturing on my other screens. If I want to capture something, I need to unplug that monitor (or change my xrandr settings to put it back to horizontal). Works just fine under Wayland with Sway. Improvements in X11 break software all the time too. It's not a wayland thing.
WhyNotHugo 6y ago
There's also screen recorders for sway (which I guess you'd be using if you're currently an i3 user).
adrusi 6y ago
Screen recording was something that couldn't just be copied over from X when building wayland, because the way X does it lets any application just read any visible data from any other application with a window open. Avoiding that kind of security hole was one of the main goals of Wayland. So it took a while for screen capture to work on Wayland. I agree that it was questionable for distros like Fedora to move to Wayland before such a critical feature was working, but now it works. Because Wayland is a protocol with no canonical implementation, it is going to take a bit of time for all compositors to implement the new standard for screen capture. But gnome has implemented it, so has wlroots, and I assume KDE has or soon will. Weston is a toy compositor, not intended for serious use, so it's not surprising if it lags behind.

roblabla 6y ago

> okay, but what if I don't like gnome ? Under X11, the screen capture and recording doesn't work when one of my screen is scaled and rotated. The capture will turn entirely black, even when capturing on my other screens. If I want to capture something, I need to unplug that monitor (or change my xrandr settings to put it back to horizontal). Works just fine under Wayland with Sway. Improvements in X11 break software all the time too. It's not a wayland thing.

WhyNotHugo 6y ago

There's also screen recorders for sway (which I guess you'd be using if you're currently an i3 user).

adrusi 6y ago

Screen recording was something that couldn't just be copied over from X when building wayland, because the way X does it lets any application just read any visible data from any other application with a window open. Avoiding that kind of security hole was one of the main goals of Wayland. So it took a while for screen capture to work on Wayland. I agree that it was questionable for distros like Fedora to move to Wayland before such a critical feature was working, but now it works. Because Wayland is a protocol with no canonical implementation, it is going to take a bit of time for all compositors to implement the new standard for screen capture. But gnome has implemented it, so has wlroots, and I assume KDE has or soon will. Weston is a toy compositor, not intended for serious use, so it's not surprising if it lags behind.