A fullscreen overlay UI for GPU Screen Recorder in the style of ShadowPlay.
The application is currently primarly designed for X11 but it can run on Wayland as well through XWayland, with some caveats because of Wayland limitations.
Note: This software is still in early alpha. Expect bugs, and please report any if you experience them. Some are already known, but it doesn't hurt to report them anyways.
You can report an issue by emailing the issue to dec05eba@protonmail.com.

Usage

Run gsr-ui and press Alt+Z to show/hide the UI. You can start the overlay UI at system startup by running systemctl enable --now --user gpu-screen-recorder-ui.

Installation

If you are using an Arch Linux based distro then you can find gpu screen recorder ui on aur under the name gpu-screen-recorder-ui (yay -S gpu-screen-recorder-ui).
If you are running another distro then you can run sudo ./install.sh, but you need to manually install the dependencies, as described below.

Dependencies

GPU Screen Recorder UI uses meson build system so you need to install meson to build GPU Screen Recorder UI.

Build dependencies

These are the dependencies needed to build GPU Screen Recorder UI:

x11 (libx11, libxrandr, libxrender, libxfixes, libxcomposite)
libglvnd (which provides libgl, libglx and libegl)
libevdev
libudev (systemd-libs)
libinput
libxkbcommon

Runtime dependencies

License

This software is licensed under GPL3.0-only. Files under fonts/ directory are licensed under SIL Open Font License.

Demo

Screenshots

Donations

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