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Add a modules.desktop.userdirs module that declares the XDG user directories, and route the recorder and screenshot tools through xdg-user-dir so their output folders (Videos/Recordings, Pictures/Screenshots) follow one relocatable source instead of a hardcoded $HOME path.
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spec, blocked-by
| spec | blocked-by | ||
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| hyprland-desktop |
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What to build
A keybound screen recorder that selects a region and then toggles recording.
Add a wf-recorder module to the desktop group, enabled through the aggregator, that selects a region first and then toggles video-only recording (no audio), bound on Super+Shift+R.
Surface a recording indicator in the Waybar bar and notification toasts on start and stop.
No audio capture and no full-screen recording variant.
Acceptance criteria
- A wf-recorder module exists in the desktop group and is enabled by the aggregator.
- The recorder selects a region first, then toggles video-only recording on
Super+Shift+R. - A recording indicator appears in the bar, and notifications fire on start and stop.
- No audio is captured and no full-screen variant is provided.
- neogaia builds green under
nix flake check.
Implementation Notes
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Toggle design. One key both starts and stops. A running capture is stopped with SIGINT so wf-recorder finalises the file; otherwise slurp picks a region and wf-recorder runs in the foreground for the whole recording, so the same invocation fires the "saved" notification once the file is written. Region-first and video-only (no
-a, so no audio) satisfy the spec directly, and no full-screen variant is offered. -
Bar indicator polls rather than signals. The Waybar
custom/recordingwidget samples the wf-recorder process withpgrepon a one-second interval, showing a video glyph while a capture runs and collapsing to nothing when idle. An earlier draft signalled Waybar (pkill -RTMIN+9) from the toggle, but the start path raised the signal before wf-recorder had launched, sopgrepsaw nothing and the indicator never lit during a recording — caught in review. Polling is race-free, removes the signal number shared across two files, and is adequate for a status glyph. -
No waybar
window-rewriteicon. wf-recorder is headless and slurp is a transient selection overlay, so neither owns a workspace window and the per-application icon convention does not apply. -
Output paths follow XDG user-dirs. A new
modules.desktop.userdirsdeclares the XDG user directories (home-managerxdg.userDirs), and the recorder resolves its base withxdg-user-dir VIDEOS, writing timestampedrecording-<date>.mp4under<Videos>/Recordings(created on first capture). The screenshot module (task 0028) was aligned to the same convention (xdg-user-dir PICTURES→<Pictures>/Screenshots), so relocating a directory is a one-line change toxdg.userDirsrather than an edit in each tool. -
Live capture is the irreducible manual step. The build is green, the config parses under
Hyprland --verify-config, and the indicator's idle/recording transitions are verified against a stand-in process; exercising a real slurp selection and wf-recorder capture needs a running session.