14:51 <e78> Is there a commandline tool that can screenrecord to a file that rotates every hour? I'm thinking of making a DVR for my laptop so I can scroll back in time arbitrarily and see what I saw before. maybe screenshots are the better way to go about this. I think 1fps would be good enough. maybe even .2fps and its easier to ocr an image than video anyway if I wanted to recover text

16:08 <e78> well. I learned not to try imagemagick import to take screenshots. That was unpleasent. Why does that lock up the console?

16:11 <e78> got my phone set up now with ssh key to get into my laptop over the lan in case wayland crashes again

16:11 <soreau> what compositor are you using?

16:12 <e78> What's the best way to automatically take a screenshot every minute? I'm not entirely sure what you mean by compositor. but I use gnome on wayland on debian 11

16:13 <dottedmag> e78: you can try gnome-screenshot, however this is best asked in GNOME channels, as this is pretty much compositor-specific.

16:13 <e78> crazy thing was even the power button wasn't responding while the guil was locked up. I thouht for sure It'd hear me trying to command a suspend but it didn't respond. I had an audio recording running at the time o the crash though and I can go back and listen to it

16:14 <e78> why does imagemagick import cause the lockup though?

16:15 <dottedmag> It shouldn't, and the question should be directed to GNOME developers, really.

16:17 <daniels> at a guess, 'import' by default is asking you to click on a window to select which window it should take a screenshot of, but given that it's an X11 app, it's completely unaware of Wayland windows so none ever get selected no matter where you click

16:20 <e78> the mouse stopped responding after I hit enter to import

16:20 <e78> I think by defaut (the way I was using it) it captures the root window (fullscreen)

16:20 <dottedmag> Oh, XWayland get a special power to lock up the whole screen through zwp_xwayland_keyboard_grab_manager, does it?

16:20 <e78> gnome-screenshot will drive me insane with the flashy blinkey thing it does every time I save the screen

16:21 <daniels> dottedmag: yep ...

16:47 <e78> why doesn't wayland have a mechanism to save screenshots? it's the central 'thing' that all video runs through isn't it? wether I'm using gnome or kde or other

16:50 <soreau> maybe try grim

16:54 <e78> grim says: wl_registry@2: error 0: invalid version for global wl_output (3): have 2, wanted 3 compositor doesn't support wlr-screencopy-unstable-v1

16:55 <soreau> oh right, mutter doesn't support what is needed for grim

16:55 <soreau> looks like you're left with xdg portal

16:57 <e78> never heard of that. I'll google it

17:03 <e78> soreau xdg-desktop-portal?

18:56 <e78> I got what I needed to work by compiling gnome-screensaver myself. there was a stackexchange post with a howto on it. apparently gnome-screensaver binary sends a signal specifically to cause the flash and click sound, and you can compile that out of it and it still works #gnome on libera will have a shit fit I'm sure. they were NONE TOO HAPPY that I'd want to be able to silently take a screenshot

18:57 <e78> https://askubuntu.com/questions/854350/disable-gnome-screenshots-camera-flash-animation

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