Peek: Support new recording interface for GNOME 3.38

[eminfedar]

There is only black screen on Debian Testing, Gnome Wayland, 1.5.1 version. Can't record anything.

[Santinell]

Have the same problem. My system Manjaro Gnome
Looks like Wayland became default for Gnome DE

[adrm]

Same in Fedora Silverblue 33 with the flatpak version. It only records a black screen and the mouse pointer.

[emanuelhfarias]

same with Fedora 33 installed via RPM. Fedora 33 uses wayland by default.

[plowpath]

i have the same issue with ffmpeg backend. i would recommend people here to use peek --backend=gnome-shell in the meantime

[adrm]

@plowpath wow, I didn't know about that issue. That means it's working when launching from the terminal with that command. Is there a way to set that backend as the default? Peek's preferences do not allow that setting. I suppose editing the desktop file would work, but is there anything GUI-user-friendly?

[phw]

The problem is that the latest GNOME release ditched the old DBus interface for screen recording and provides a new one. This is not yet reported. The only workaround currently would be to run with Xorg instead of Wayland and use the ffmpeg backend.

[digitalethics]

i have the same issue with ffmpeg backend. i would recommend people here to use peek --backend=gnome-shell in the meantime

What is the default recording backend on Wayland? Is there a terminal command to check for what recording backend peek was configured by a particular distro?

[openscript]

I ran in the same issue on Arch with Wayland. Only the cursor is recorded. The workaround peek --backend=gnome-shell does the job for me too.

[bphd]

i have the same issue with ffmpeg backend. i would recommend people here to use peek --backend=gnome-shell in the meantime

Failed to initialize recorder: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NoReply: Message recipient disconnected from message bus without replying

And without arguments I only got the cursor at recording

[taoqf]

even record mp4 with peek --backend=gnome-shell will blocked before recording. fedora 33
https://github.com/phw/peek/issues/695