What's the best solution for screen recording onWayland vs xorg?

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I see that Fedora is built on top of Wayland. I am not anti Wayland but I see some apps won’t work on it. Namely screen recording software that need Xorg to run. For the moment it’s not a big deal. I can simply reboot into windows to use some screen recording software and as much of my stuff is web-based I can still manage it. However being able to do it from within Fedora would be nice.

I am using the KDE spin of Fedora currently.

I suppose I could simply wait for screen recording software to catch up is Wayland is supposed to be the future from what I gather but most of the screencast software seem to recommend using Xorg.

As I say it’s not a big issue right now but I’m just thinking about the future so I am just curious about what other people are using to do this.

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I tested kooha in gnome under wayland.
It is installed as flatpack.

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Yeah, there are some applications that aren’t compatible with wayland.

I usually use X instead of wayland for that reason. Also, you don’t need to boot into Windows, you could just log into a X session…

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How does one do that?

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From sddm(the login screen), there should be a way to select your session and there should be both a wayland and an x11 session to choose from.

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KDE-Plasma
On the bottom left you have the selector between Wayland (default) & X11.

On Gnome it is on the right side, you have a Gear where you can select several options. Also Wayland is default. You have to click first into the password field that the gear appears.

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OBS Studio (flatpak) works for screen recording.

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GPU Screen Recorder. Though it only works under Xorg and with Nvidia cards. (flatpak).

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I eventually found it at the bottom left of login screen. Thanks.

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I’m running Xorg until Wayland matures a bit more, or until Nvidia fixes their proprietary drivers to be more compatible with Wayland. I made this change to default to X:

Open /etc/gdm/custom.conf

Uncomment the following line:
#WaylandEnable=false

Add the following line to the [daemon] section:
DefaultSession=gnome-xorg.desktop

Save the custom. conf file.
Logout or reboot to enter the new X11 session.
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I use ‘simplescreenrecorder’.
Available in the fedora repo and allows selecting entire screen or a designated area. Creates an mp4 for you.

Only drawback is that it is designed for xorg, but does work on wayland to some degree.