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README.md
Screen Record
screenrecord.sh
is a mindless, yet useful,
script to record your screen in sway.
Really, it doesn't do anything else.
Why?
Because I had enough bringing up shells, using tiresome aliases, or, god forbid, firing up a whole OBS Studio just to record my screen.
I wanted a simple keyboard shortcut to toggle screen recording on and off at will, and I have the impression other people may wish the same.
Does it depend on anything?
Yes, to use screenrecord.sh
you need:
- xdg-user-dir to find out your user's VIDEOS directory.
- wf-recorder for the actual screen recording functionality.
- mako, or any other notification manager that may be triggered via
notify-send
. - jq to parse JSON from command line.
- slurp to select a screen area.
These lovely utilities are often already available on many sway
setups.
How do I use it?
-
Either clone the repo or copy the latest
screenrecord.sh
somewhere in your home. For the sake of this example, let's assume you placedscreenrecord.sh
in some$HOME/bin
directory. -
Customize your
~/.config/sway/config
and register some shortcuts to record your screen, e.g.:set $screenrecord "$HOME/bin/screenrecord.sh" bindsym $mod+r exec $screenrecord -t bindsym $mod+Shift+r exec $screenrecord -wt bindsym $mod+Control+r exec $screenrecord -st
You should now be able to record your screen with those shortcuts.
-
If you're using a status bar (e.g. i3status), you can easily customize it to react to
screenrecord.sh
pidfile, for example in your~/.i3status.conf
:order += "run_watch screenrecord" run_watch screenrecord { pidfile = "/run/user/1000/screenrecord.pid" format = "🎥" format_down = "" }
Special thanks
This script is loosely based on the following gist:
https://gist.github.com/ugursogukpinar/f390d9f4c829fb1b05fc74a12dd482bb
License
Public domain, enjoy this code at will and use it at your own risk.
See unlicense.org for details or read the LICENSE
file.
Cheers :)