Intent to retire recordmydesktop

[Mat Booth]

Hi all,

The venerable "recordmydesktop" application does not work with Wayland and
stopped working out-of-the-box when Wayland was made default.

Project is long since abandoned upstream, is riddled with crash bugs, and
my own personal use of this project ceased when gnome-shell grew good
built-in screencast recording functionality.

I plan to retire this package from Fedora shortly.


-- 
Mat Booth
http://fedoraproject.org/get-fedora

[Petr Šabata]

On Wed, Oct 04, 2017 at 10:04:16AM +0100, Mat Booth wrote:
>  Hi all,
>  
>  The venerable "recordmydesktop" application does not work with Wayland and
>  stopped working out-of-the-box when Wayland was made default.
>  
>  Project is long since abandoned upstream, is riddled with crash bugs, and
>  my own personal use of this project ceased when gnome-shell grew good
>  built-in screencast recording functionality.
>  
>  I plan to retire this package from Fedora shortly. 
recordmydesktop worked fine for me when I needed it.  Since I'm
one of those people who use just a simple (X11) WM, are there any
simple, non-Gnome-centric alternatives?

Cheers,
P

[Jan Zelený]

Dne středa 4. října 2017 11:15:23 CEST, Petr Šabata napsal(a):
>  On Wed, Oct 04, 2017 at 10:04:16AM +0100, Mat Booth wrote:
>  > Hi all,
>  > 
>  > The venerable "recordmydesktop" application does not work with Wayland
> and
>  > stopped working out-of-the-box when Wayland was made default.
>  > 
>  > Project is long since abandoned upstream, is riddled with crash bugs, and
>  > my own personal use of this project ceased when gnome-shell grew good
>  > built-in screencast recording functionality.
>  > 
>  > I plan to retire this package from Fedora shortly.
>  
>  recordmydesktop worked fine for me when I needed it.  Since I'm
>  one of those people who use just a simple (X11) WM, are there any
>  simple, non-Gnome-centric alternatives? 
I use Simple Screen Recorder, works just fine with X11 and KDE/Plasma.

Cheers,
Jan

[Sérgio Basto]

On Wed, 2017-10-04 at 11:26 +0200, Jan Zelený wrote:
>  Dne středa 4. října 2017 11:15:23 CEST, Petr Šabata napsal(a):
>  > On Wed, Oct 04, 2017 at 10:04:16AM +0100, Mat Booth wrote:
>  > > Hi all,
>  > > 
>  > > The venerable "recordmydesktop" application does not work with
>  > > Wayland and
>  > > stopped working out-of-the-box when Wayland was made default.
>  > > 
>  > > Project is long since abandoned upstream, is riddled with crash
>  > > bugs, and
>  > > my own personal use of this project ceased when gnome-shell grew
>  > > good
>  > > built-in screencast recording functionality.
>  > > 
>  > > I plan to retire this package from Fedora shortly.
>  > 
>  > recordmydesktop worked fine for me when I needed it.  Since I'm
>  > one of those people who use just a simple (X11) WM, are there any
>  > simple, non-Gnome-centric alternatives?
>  
>  I use Simple Screen Recorder, works just fine with X11 and
>  KDE/Plasma. 
I use vokoscreen 

rpm -qi vokoscreen
Name        : vokoscreen
Version     : 2.5.0
Release     : 1.fc25
Architecture: x86_64
Install Date: dom 30 abr 2017 13:58:23 WEST
Group       : Applications/Multimedia
Size        : 1842459
License     : GPLv2+ and BSD
Signature   : RSA/SHA1, qui 10 nov 2016 19:45:43 WET, Key ID
a1e54a0f6806a9cb
Source RPM  : vokoscreen-2.5.0-1.fc25.src.rpm
Build Date  : ter 08 nov 2016 08:32:00 WET
Build Host  : buildvm-02.online.rpmfusion.net
Relocations : (not relocatable)
Packager    : RPM Fusion
Vendor      : RPM Fusion
URL         : https://github.com/vkohaupt/vokoscreen
Summary     : Screencast creator
Description :
vokoscreen is an easy to use screencast creator to record educational
videos, live recordings of browser, installation, videoconferences,
etc.

>  Cheers,
>  Jan
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Sérgio M. B.

[Mat Booth]

On 4 October 2017 at 10:15, Petr Šabata <contyk(a)redhat.com&gt; wrote:

>  On Wed, Oct 04, 2017 at 10:04:16AM +0100, Mat Booth wrote:
>  > Hi all,
>  >
>  > The venerable "recordmydesktop" application does not work with Wayland
>  and
>  > stopped working out-of-the-box when Wayland was made default.
>  >
>  > Project is long since abandoned upstream, is riddled with crash bugs, and
>  > my own personal use of this project ceased when gnome-shell grew good
>  > built-in screencast recording functionality.
>  >
>  > I plan to retire this package from Fedora shortly.
>
>  recordmydesktop worked fine for me when I needed it.  Since I'm
>  one of those people who use just a simple (X11) WM, are there any
>  simple, non-Gnome-centric alternatives?
>
>  Cheers,
>  P
>
>  
I have never tried it, but there is a package called
"simplescreenrecorder"
in the RPMFusion Free repo.

There may be others that I am not aware of.

-- 
Mat Booth
http://fedoraproject.org/get-fedora

[Athmane Madjoudj]

On Wed, Oct 4, 2017 at 11:15 AM, Petr Šabata <contyk(a)redhat.com&gt; wrote:
<...>
>  recordmydesktop worked fine for me when I needed it.  Since I'm
>  one of those people who use just a simple (X11) WM, are there any
>  simple, non-Gnome-centric alternatives? 
Perhaps ffmpeg could help there.

https://trac.ffmpeg.org/wiki/Capture/Desktop

BR

[Kevin Kofler]

Mat Booth wrote:
>  The venerable "recordmydesktop" application does not work
> with Wayland and
>  stopped working out-of-the-box when Wayland was made default.
>  
>  Project is long since abandoned upstream, is riddled with crash bugs, and
>  my own personal use of this project ceased when gnome-shell grew good
>  built-in screencast recording functionality.
>  
>  I plan to retire this package from Fedora shortly. 
You should simply orphan the package and give others a chance to pick it up. 
It will be retired if nobody picks it up.

        Kevin Kofler