Flatsonar

Blue Recorder

by Salem Yaslem

A simple screen recorder for Linux desktop. Supports Wayland & Xorg

Broad permissions Verified creator GPL-3.0-only v0.3.1
Screenshot 1 of Blue Recorder

About

A simple desktop recorder for Linux systems. Built using Rust, GTK+ 4 and ffmpeg. It supports recording audio and video on almost all Linux interfaces with support for Wayland display server on GNOME session. The following formats are currently supported: mkv, avi, mp4, wmv, gif and nut (And only WebM for Wayland's GNOME session). You can stop the recording process easily by right-clicking the icon and choosing "Stop Record". Or middle-clicking the recording icon in the notifications area (but doesn't work on all interfaces). You can choose the audio input source you want from the list. You can also set the default values you want by simply changing them in the interface, and the program will save them for you for the next time you open it. Based on GREEN RECORDER but rewritten in RUST

Permissions

2 permissions weaken the sandbox. Flatsonar asks before installing.

  • X11 display: X11 lets apps read input and windows of other apps
    --socket=x11
  • full access to your home folder
    --filesystem=home
  • inter-process communication (needed for X11)
    --share=ipc
  • audio
    --socket=pulseaudio
  • Wayland display
    --socket=wayland
  • GPU acceleration
    --device=dri
  • access to xdg-run/pipewire-0
    --filesystem=xdg-run/pipewire-0
  • system tray
    --talk-name=org.kde.StatusNotifierWatcher

Who publishes this

The creator demonstrably controls this app id: Flathub verification, the hosting account owns the namespace, or a well-known file on their domain.

  • fetches from www.ffmpeg.org over unencrypted http: anyone on the path can swap the bytes
    source:insecure-url
  • verified on Flathub: the developer proved they control this app id
    publisher:flathub

Maintenance

Recent activity on the upstream repository, or built and reviewed by Flathub.

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