Screen recording: the Flameshot flow, for video

modules/home/apps/screenrec.nix. wl-screenrec from the UNSTABLE channel plus three scripts: screenrec-toggle, screenrec-start and togif. The binds (SUPER+SHIFT+R and the "screenrec" submap) live in modules/home/desktop/hypr/lua/keybinds.lua.

The flowCopy Anchor Link

SUPER+SHIFT+R with nothing recording enters the submap: 1 records the main monitor, 2 the secondary (both by NAME from my.monitors, never by position), R a region drawn with slurp, Esc leaves. SUPER+SHIFT+R again stops it. The file lands in ~/Videos/Recordings as an H.264 MP4, and the notification offers "Open folder" and "Convert to GIF". togif <file.mp4> does the same from the terminal. There is no audio, by choice: screen clips, not screencasts.

The running recording is $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR/screenrec (PID, then path). Stopping is SIGINT, which lets wl-screenrec write the MP4 index; SIGKILL leaves a file with no moov atom that plays nowhere.

Why wl-screenrecCopy Anchor Link

• Not OBS: too much tool for a 10-second clip.
• Not gpu-screen-recorder: its fast path is KMS capture, and KMS capture does not run on xe (the same wall Sunshine hit). Its other path is the portal.
• Not Kooha or anything portal-based: the portal asks which screen EVERY time, which defeats a keyboard flow.
• wl-screenrec captures through the compositor's own copy protocol, takes -o <name> and slurp's -g directly, and encodes on the Arc through VA-API (iHD, set in modules/nixos/hardware/intel-arc-b580.nix). --low-power=off because the Arc has no low-power H.264 entrypoint, so auto only prints a warning before falling back.

Pitfalls found on the wayCopy Anchor Link

• The stable 0.2.0 crashes on a rotated output. DP-2 is portrait (transform 1), and 0.2.0 builds a broken filter graph (1080transpose_vaapi=dir=clock, a missing comma) and panics. 0.3.2 from unstable records it fine, hence unstable.wl-screenrec.
• No "whole layout". wl-screenrec refuses a region that crosses two outputs ("not entirely within one output, bailing"), so there is no "all" key, and a slurp region dragged across both monitors fails with a red hyprctl notify. With a portrait monitor beside a landscape one, a combined video would be mostly black bars anyway.
• LD_LIBRARY_PATH from the shell. The interactive zsh exports alsa/pipewire built on a newer glibc, and any ffmpeg-linked store binary run from the terminal dies with GLIBC_2.43 not found. Every script unsets it first; the keybind path never had it.
• The GIF caps the LONGER side. Capping only the width gave the portrait DP-2 a 1707 px tall GIF of 22 MB for 3 seconds. Fitting both sides into 960 (never upscaling a small region) cut it to 7 MB.