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* [bug#70282] [PATCH 0/2] Fix gnome-shell screenrecorder
@ 2024-04-08 15:39 Dariqq
  2024-04-08 15:53 ` [bug#70282] [PATCH 1/2] gnu: gnome-shell: Wrap d-bus services Dariqq
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  0 siblings, 5 replies; 30+ messages in thread
From: Dariqq @ 2024-04-08 15:39 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: 70282
  Cc: rekado, Dariqq, Liliana Marie Prikler, Maxim Cournoyer,
	Raghav Gururajan, Vivien Kraus

Hello Guix,

Last week a user in the irc chat remarked that the built in Gnome screenrecorder is not available which rekado and me then investigated afterwards.

This functionality is provided by the org.gnome.Shell.Screencast dbus service which currently fails to start (if for example you try to investigate it with d-spy you get the not really helpful error: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.Spawn.ChildExited: Process org.gnome.Shell.Screencast exited with status 1)

We later figured that this error happens because the required typelib files cannot be found.

As a fix I imported a patch from NixOS [1] from their gnome-shell 42/44 package and wrapped the relevant files with GI_TYPELIB_PATH. This seems to be strictly necessary only for the screencast service however I wrapped all of the dbus services listed in the js/dbusServices/meson.build file, same as what is done in NixOS.

In order for Screencast to work you'll also need pipewire available (I think for the gstreamer plug-in) which is why I added it to gnome-essential-extras in the second patch.

You'll also need pipewire running (i.e the home-service) which makes this a bit unintuitive for users.
I don't think it is currently possible to enable user level shepherd services from the system configuration, but correct me if I am wrong. Without pipewire running the screen recording stops immediately.

As usual i am not sure if the formating/wording of my commit messages and the name I gave the patch are fine.

Also thanks to rekado for helping to make sense of this.

[1] https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/nixos-23.05/pkgs/desktops/gnome/core/gnome-shell/wrap-services.patch 

Dariqq (2):
  gnu: gnome-shell: Wrap d-bus services.
  gnu: gnome-essential-extras: Propagate pipewire.

 gnu/local.mk                                  |  1 +
 gnu/packages/gnome.scm                        | 14 ++++-
 .../gnome-shell-wrappable-dbus-services.patch | 59 +++++++++++++++++++
 3 files changed, 72 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 gnu/packages/patches/gnome-shell-wrappable-dbus-services.patch


base-commit: cd45294d576975a3bff2f755764a3f46f09ea6f9
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2.41.0





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2024-04-08 15:39 [bug#70282] [PATCH 0/2] Fix gnome-shell screenrecorder Dariqq
2024-04-08 15:53 ` [bug#70282] [PATCH 1/2] gnu: gnome-shell: Wrap d-bus services Dariqq
2024-04-08 16:54   ` Liliana Marie Prikler
2024-04-09 15:35     ` Dariqq
2024-04-09 17:04       ` Liliana Marie Prikler
2024-04-10  8:07         ` Dariqq
2024-04-10 18:20           ` Liliana Marie Prikler
2024-04-11  9:04             ` Dariqq
2024-04-08 15:53 ` [bug#70282] [PATCH 2/2] gnu: gnome-essential-extras: Propagate pipewire Dariqq
2024-04-08 16:49   ` Liliana Marie Prikler
2024-04-09 14:05     ` Dariqq
2024-04-12 17:26 ` [bug#70282] [PATCH v2] gnu: gnome-shell: Wrap screencast service Dariqq
2024-04-19 18:51   ` Liliana Marie Prikler
2024-04-20 10:11     ` Dariqq
2024-04-20 10:46       ` Liliana Marie Prikler
2024-04-21 12:37         ` Dariqq
2024-04-21 12:43           ` Liliana Marie Prikler
2024-05-08 12:57             ` [bug#70282] [PATCH v3] " Dariqq
2024-04-21 17:02 ` Dariqq
2024-05-08 17:24   ` Liliana Marie Prikler
2024-05-08 18:33 ` [bug#70282] [PATCH v4] " Dariqq
2024-05-08 19:51   ` Maxim Cournoyer
2024-05-08 21:18     ` Dariqq
2024-05-08 22:11       ` Liliana Marie Prikler
2024-05-09  8:27         ` Dariqq
2024-05-10 14:59         ` Dariqq
2024-05-10 16:04           ` Liliana Marie Prikler
2024-05-11  8:03             ` Dariqq
2024-05-09 15:30       ` Maxim Cournoyer
2024-05-14  5:34         ` bug#70282: " Liliana Marie Prikler

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