Reel

Screen capture software for Linux / Wayland

⚠️ Early development warning ⚠️

If you're interested in this project now you can checkout one of the following.

• frequently asked questions
• design document
• discord server

Goals

• Visually beautiful, responsive and efficient
• Easy to build and package. Reduced number of build and runtime dependencies
• Support and keep up to date with all relevant Wayland and Vulkan extensions / protocols
• Support Wayland compositor specific extensions
• Control with scripts over an IPC interface

Installation

First install the required dependencies for your distribution.

• Fedora
• Ubuntu

To build, you'll need a build of the zig compiler. The latest verified version is 0.12.0-dev.3180, but if out of date will be updated soon.

git clone https://github.com/kdchambers/reel --recursive
cd reel
zig build run -Doptimize=ReleaseSafe