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HomRec on Linux

Not available yet

There is no Linux build of HomRec to download right now. The current codebase (recording pipeline, screen capture, UI) is built entirely on Windows-only APIs (DXGI/D3D11/Win32 + wxWidgets-msw), so a .deb or .tar.gz package simply wouldn't run on Linux today — this page previously implied otherwise, which was a mistake on our part.

What's actually planned

Screen capture on Linux is split by display server rather than by distribution — an Arch user and a Debian user on the same display server need identical capture code. HomRec's Linux support is being planned around that split:

X11 — capture via Xlib/XShm (or similar), for X11 sessions.
Wayland — capture via PipeWire and the xdg-desktop-portal ScreenCast API (org.freedesktop.portal.ScreenCast), since Wayland's security model doesn't allow X11-style direct capture. This is the same compositor-agnostic approach used by other modern Linux recording tools, and works the same way on GNOME, KDE, and others.

Distribution packaging (.deb, Arch's PKGBUILD, etc.) is a separate, later step once one of the two capture backends above actually exists.

Want to help or get notified?

Linux support is one of the most-requested features. If you'd like to track progress, contribute, or get pinged when a build is ready:

Watch the GitHub repo · Open/follow an issue · Join the Discord

In the meantime, HomRec runs great on Windows — download it here.