Cannot retrieve the window id of the to be recorded window - on Windows with WSL about t-rec-rs HOT 4 CLOSED

That is an interesting one, since this is WSL, I guess you just used a terminal not a X window based terminal? Maybe you can post a screenshot from the terminal that you have used?

However, by the error message below this is pretty much to be expected.

xwininfo: error: unable to parse display name ""

For t-rec to functioning a X Server is needed, so in your case there is not an X Server nor a DISPLAY that can be captured. I'm not an WSL expert, but I guess there is no way that this would work like this (without a running X Server)

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@oren,

Likely this won't work until the new version of WSL2 comes out of slow ring at the earliest, at least natively. As of current (unless you are in the fast ring), W10 doesn't pack an X server, and while you can spin one up, it is kind of hackish currently. Additionally, most of the time, WSL is used via the WSL bash terminal or via Windows Terminal, so, since this is predicated on the need for an X-Server (and therefore, a window running in the X-server space), to get this to work, you would need to launch an X-based term program from your Windows term program and then start t-rec from the X-based term program's window. There are a couple of X Servers for Windows available in the MS Store if you really want to go down that route,

Even once full X support and GPU acceleration are added to W10, it is very likely to be niche at best.

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I am not sure how feasible or possible this would be using the win-32 branch. It would at that point be a windows process, but may or may not be complicated by the fact you would be using it from a Linux command line.

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I believe we can close this issue as can't fix.

At this point I want to pint out that there is a windows native branch that already works but is not production grade. You might give this a try.

feat/win32-support

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