Kooha
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Unusable on arch
First attempt simply told "failed to start recording" with no indication why. On arch with i3.
Failed to start recording
Caused by: 0: Check out It Doesn't Work page for help. 1: Failed to create ScreencastSession 2: Failed to create session 3: Interaction was ended in some other way with response Variant { ptr: 0x55af9770acc0, type: VariantTy { inner: "a{sv}" }, value: "@a{sv} {}" }
The same issue on Manjaro with Xfce.
same Manjaro XFCE Kooha 2.2.3-1
Failed to start recording
Caused by:
0: Check out <a href="https://github.com/SeaDve/Kooha#-it-doesnt-work">It Doesn't Work page</a> for help.
1: Failed to create ScreencastSession
2: Failed to create session
3: Interaction was ended in some other way with response Variant { ptr: 0x5571255eb080, type: VariantTy { inner: "a{sv}" }, value: "{'session_handle': <'/org/freedesktop/portal/desktop/session/1_115/kooha_0'>}" }
I believe Xorg is not in priority for this software. IMHO SimpleScreenRecorder is better option for Xorg. But it doesn't work on wayland, and kooha does.
Yes, this is the program I ended up using.
Thanks for the bug issue. This particular issue has already been reported in https://github.com/SeaDve/Kooha/issues/202, so this report is being marked as a duplicate.