Action to Start/Stop Screen Recording

[icedcoffeeee]

Hi, thanks for the quickshell and plugins. I've been trying to add a widget action to the main bar that starts and stops screen recording with wl-screenrec, something like noctalia shell's.

Steps to Reproduce

1. dependencies: wl-screenrec, slurp, notify-desktop, killall
2. create a file ~/record.sh with the following:

   #! /usr/bin/env bash
   RECORDER=wl-screenrec
   if [[ $(ps -A|grep $RECORDER) ]] then
     killall $RECORDER
     notify-desktop "Stopped Screen Recording" -a $RECORDER
   else
     AREA=$(slurp)
     notify-desktop "Started Screen Recording" -a $RECORDER
     OUT="$(date -Iminutes|sed 's/[:+-]//g').mp4"
     $RECORDER -f "$OUT" -g "$AREA" &
   fi

3. make executable: chmod +x ~/record.sh.
4. add the script to the left click hook of the Dank Action plugin.
5. add the action to the main bar.
6. clicking the added widget does nothing.
7. reloading the plugin suddenly triggers slurp, but no recording or notification is created.

System Details

• NixOS 25.11
• Niri 25.08
• DMS 0.6.2
• Dank Action 8715ca3