arbtt-capture-wl

arbtt capture for Wayland compositors (niri, sway).

Usage

# Start capturing (60s interval, writes to ~/.arbtt/capture.log)
arbtt-capture-wl

# Custom interval
arbtt-capture-wl -i 30

# Custom logfile
arbtt-capture-wl -f /path/to/capture.log

View stats

Requires ~/.arbtt/categorize.cfg - see example config.

arbtt-stats
arbtt-dump

Install

Pre-built binaries:

Download the latest release from GitHub Releases:

# Linux (x86_64) - binary
base=https://github.com/franzos/arbtt-capture-wl/releases/latest/download
curl -sLO $base/arbtt-capture-wl-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu.tar.gz
curl -sLO $base/arbtt-capture-wl-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu.tar.gz.sha256
sha256sum -c arbtt-capture-wl-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu.tar.gz.sha256
tar xzf arbtt-capture-wl-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu.tar.gz
sudo mv arbtt-capture-wl /usr/local/bin/

Release assets carry a build provenance attestation; verify with gh attestation verify <file> --repo franzos/arbtt-capture-wl.

Packages:

.deb and .rpm packages are also available on the Releases page.

# Debian/Ubuntu
sudo dpkg -i arbtt-capture-wl_*.deb

# Fedora/RHEL
sudo rpm -i arbtt-capture-wl-*.rpm

Supported compositors

• sway (via $SWAYSOCK)
• niri (via $NIRI_SOCKET)

Limitations

Idle time isn't detected. Every sample is recorded as active, so $idle conditions in categorize.cfg never match and time spent away from an unlocked machine counts as active. Neither compositor exposes idle time over its IPC socket; that would need an ext-idle-notify-v1 listener.

License

GPL-3.0-only