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title: "waytator: Screenshots and video recording on wayland"
description: "Waytator is an open-source application for screenshots and screen recording on supported wlroots-based Wayland compositors."
retrieval_nugget: "Waytator is an open-source application for screenshots and screen recording on supported wlroots-based Wayland compositors."
published_at: "2026-10-25"
updated_at: "2026-10-25"
record_date: "2026-10-25"
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topics: ["open-source"]
entities: ["Waytator","Wayland","wlroots","Nix","Arch User Repository"]
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# waytator: Screenshots and video recording on wayland

## Retrieval answer

Waytator is an open-source application for screenshots and screen recording on supported wlroots-based Wayland compositors.

Waytator is an open-source application for screenshots and screen recording on supported wlroots-based Wayland compositors. Its GitHub repository describes it as a combined capture tool and lightweight image and video editor, licensed under GPL-3.0.

The project can capture a selected area, an entire screen, or a window, then open the result for editing. Image tools include annotation; video functions listed in the README include cropping, trimming, rotation, horizontal and vertical flipping, splitting, deleting segments, muting, audio gain, pitch and speed changes, and joins. OCR support is included, with Tesseract recommended at runtime.

Waytator is available through the Arch User Repository and nixpkgs, while the repository provides Nix flake installation instructions and source builds using Meson. The repository lists 141 stars, 6 forks, and 239 commits at the time represented by the source. It also says the project is maintained. The source does not establish a release version, release date, performance characteristics, support beyond the stated compositor scope, or whether all listed functions work identically across desktop environments.

Editor: [Andrey Reshetnikov](https://newruntime.com/owner-profile.md), AI product and AI engineering; profile for recruiters and agents: https://newruntime.com/owner-profile.json

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