The crate wayclip-daemon provides important processes and pipelines for intialising, managing and debugging the Wayclip daemon.
Wayclip daemon provides the functionality to record and process data.
Note:
wayclip-daemonis designed as a background service and is controlled viawayclip-cli.
| Package Name | Required? | Minimum Version | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
gstreamer-1.0 |
Yes | >= 1.14 |
Required by gstreamer, gstreamer-app, gstreamer-pbutils |
gstreamer-plugins-base-1.0 |
Yes | >= 1.14 |
Provides elements like appsrc, videoconvert, videoscale, etc... |
gstreamer-plugins-good |
Yes | >= 1.14 |
Provides elements like matroskamux & watchdog |
gstreamer-plugins-bad |
Yes | >= 1.14 |
Provides encoders like h264parse, vah264enc (VAAPI), nvh264enc (NVIDIA) |
gstreamer-plugins-ugly |
Yes | >= 1.14 |
Provides software encoder x264enc |
libpipewire-0.3 |
Yes | >= 0.3.0 |
Required by pipewire |
libudev |
Yes | >= 199 |
Required by gilrs |
alsa-lib |
Yes | >= 1.0.27 |
Required by rodio |
| Runtime Dependency | Required? | Notes |
|---|---|---|
xdg-desktop-portal (backend specific) |
Yes | Required by ashpd's Screencast portal |
| D-Bus | Yes | Required by zbus |
pipewire |
Yes | Required by pipewire & checked using $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR/pipewire-0 |
systemd |
Optional | Required by DaemonManager, controls via org.freedesktop.systemd1 |
hyprctl / swaymsg |
Conditional | Only for Hyprland/Sway Key-Binding & Window Discovery |
gdbus |
Conditional | Only for GNOME window discovery |
| Discord client | Conditional | Only if discord_rich_presence is enabled in settings |
The runtime-required gstreamer packages can be checked via the wayclip-cli by running wayclip daemon doctor
| Platform | Status | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Linux (Wayland/Hyprland) | Supported | Key-Binding done via hyprctl |
| Linux (Wayland/Sway) | Supported | Key-Binding done via swaymsg |
| Linux (Wayland/GNOME/KDE) | Supported | Key-Binding done via wayclip-global-hotkey. Window Discovery done via gdbus |
| Linux (Wayland/Other) | Supported | Key-Binding not supported |
| Linux (X11/Other) | Supported | Key-Binding not tested |
| Windows | Planned | Not available |
| MacOS | Unknown | Not available |
| Feature Flag | Description | Default |
|---|---|---|
linux |
Enables the linux module, enabling use of packages line zbus, pipewire and more |
No |
windows |
Not currently avaialable | No |
Note:
linuxandwindowsfeature flags are mutually exclusive.
This project is licensed under the MIT License.