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Xbox Game Bar for Linux? (scontent-yyz1-1.xx.fbcdn.net)
submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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I was a windows user back in 2019 - 2020, and moved over to Linux in 2021. I honestly forgot how i found Linux, and when I was using Windows, I remember using this feature "Game Bar", which I used to make game clips on my PC. Although, when I got my NVIDIA Card the Game Bar Stopped working because of the HDMI cord that modern GPU's use.

The Real Question, is there a program that replicates the Xbox Game bar? I really like the functionality that the game bar provides, and would like to start using it again, but on Linux. I was hoping if anyone knew of such program, or if you know the steps for me to build it myself. I found this Repository where someone made a clone, although it's for Windows, and not what I expected.

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[-] [email protected] 32 points 6 months ago

steam overlay does a lot of that stuff. you can use OBS for screen recording

[-] [email protected] 28 points 6 months ago

There's also gpu-screen-recorder

[-] [email protected] 13 points 6 months ago

Nice, I did know Steam had an overlay, as I used it once. OBS, I have seen people use Replay Buffer. I'll probably check this out.

[-] [email protected] 11 points 6 months ago

I don't know about the full functionality of the game bar, but I know ReplaySorcery does a good job with instant replays in games for me.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

This is what I use. The project is dead and had some bugs that kept it running on my system right away, but as it's open source, I was able to fix the code a little bit to success. Just wish it was a little friendlier on cpu or could be selective on which apps to run instead of recording nonstop regardless. I have it start up with Steam for now though.

[-] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Did you seriously post that image from facebook?

[-] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago

Listen, it’s a screenshot from when I was using windows back in 2020. It’s from Facebook messenger, I just didn’t feel like downloading and uploading when Lemmy has a url link I can drop here. Sorry, I get why you hate Facebook, me too. I just find it convenient to use the link feature. Again, privacy badger is a useful add on I use that helps blocks Facebook and X (Twitter) widgets.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

It's better when you don't upload them directly to lemmy instances anyway, it's expensive to host images. Sorry for the misunderstanding.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

They probably just took the first good image from an image search and that image happen to come from facebook.

[-] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago

Is is just to record the screen or does it do something special in addition to that?

There are a few screen recorders out there. Maybe one will fit your fancy?

Also I can recommend alternativeto.net to find alternatives to just about any software or service out there. Here's the page on the XBox Game Bar

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this post was submitted on 30 Dec 2023
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