Known issues
These are things we already know about. For step-by-step fixes to common problems, see Troubleshooting.
Stray keystrokes after waking from sleep
Section titled “Stray keystrokes after waking from sleep”If the Mac goes to standby/sleep while crowd-cast is recording and you then wake it, the last few (~5) keystrokes from just before it slept can be re-emitted on wake. This is a known bug in how input events are flushed across a sleep/wake cycle.
Linux support is experimental. crowd-cast works on exactly two setups and won’t start on anything else (X11, KDE, or other wlroots compositors such as Hyprland): it refuses rather than record the wrong thing.
- GNOME (Wayland): records the apps you select, each captured wherever it is, including across multiple monitors. First-time setup needs one log out and back in to finish enabling capture; until you do, recording stays off and you’ll be prompted. No window picker ever appears, so the wrong window can’t be captured by accident.
- sway: records a whole monitor, not individual apps. There’s no per-app selection, so on sway it’s your call whether to record at all. crowd-cast asks which monitor to share each time it starts.
- The tray icon needs a compatible status bar. On sway, use waybar (with swaybar the icon shows but its menu won’t open). On a GNOME session without the AppIndicator extension, the icon won’t appear at all. Recording works either way; the tray is only for controlling it.
- Notifications need a notification daemon. GNOME has one built in; on a bare sway session, run mako or dunst or you won’t see notifications. Recording is unaffected.
Reporting something new
Section titled “Reporting something new”Found a bug that isn’t listed here? Please open an issue or email mihir@pdoom.org. Include your OS (and, on Linux, your compositor / status bar) and the logs.