icholy/ttygif

Doesn't work on Wayland

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sigvaldm commented

Dear icholy,

I have installed ttyrec and ttygif (version 1.4.0) from the Arch User Repository, but nothing happens when I try executing ttygif. Below is an excerpt from my terminal.

[sigvald@sim ~]$ ttyrec abc
[sigvald@sim ~]$ echo "test"
test
[sigvald@sim ~]$ exit
[sigvald@sim ~]$ ttyplay abc
[sigvald@sim ~]$ echo "test"
test
[sigvald@sim ~]$ exit
[sigvald@sim ~]$ export TTYGIF_DEBUG=1
[sigvald@sim ~]$ ttygif abc
[sigvald@sim ~]$ # Nothing happens

Do you have any idea what's wrong?

Kind regards,
Sigvald

icholy commented

Do you have a desktop environment (X server) running?

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sigvaldm commented

I do have a desktop environment running, but it's Wayland (I believe it's default for Gnome 3?). Not X11.

icholy commented

It uses xwd to capture frames. I'm assuming this doesn't work in Wayland.

sigvaldm commented

I tried opening Gnome using Xorg (it comes with both Xorg and Wayland) and it turned out ttygif works then! I won't need this program very often, so for now I'll just switch to Xorg whenever I need it. But it would be a nice thing for a "wishlist" to have support for Wayland. You would probably need to use something other than xwd, though, and I wouldn't blame you if you don't bother. Anyway, nice little program!

icholy commented

We'll see. I'll keep this issue open.

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