Bug 927245

Summary:	gnome-base/gnome-shell needs mutter[screencast] for recording the screen
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Pacho Ramos <pacho>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Gentoo Linux Gnome Desktop Team <gnome>
Status:	CONFIRMED ---
Severity:	normal
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Pacho Ramos gentoo-dev

2024-03-18 13:41:37 UTC

Hello,

I was this morning trying to record a video of my screen with the built-in gnome-shell tool and I noticed that it was silently dying after two seconds. 

Finally, this was caused by me having mutter built without screencast support. 

I wonder about how we could make a "default" Gnome installation to work out of the box, either by:
- RDEPENDing on mutter[screencast] unconditionally or with a screencast USE flag
- Adding mutter[screencast] to the (already big) optfeature line.

Additionally, maybe we could consider default enabling "screencast" on gnome profiles and, by the way (as I noticed while I was checking our latest gnome-shell ebuild), "pipewire" too, as it seems to be more and more used in the tree.

Thanks