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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 placed screenrecord.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 = "/var/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 :)

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