add region-recorder

[h-jangra]

Plugin

• Id: h-jangra/region-recorder
• New plugin
• Update to an existing plugin (version bumped in plugin.toml)

What it does

Region Recorder is a minimal, high-performance Noctalia plugin for region screen recording with interactive slurp selection. It
supports region, focused-window, portal, and fullscreen recording through a bar widget, control center shortcut, and IPC service.

External dependencies

• slurp — interactive region selection.
• gpu-screen-recorder, wl-screenrec, or wf-recorder — recording engine; at least one is required.
• ffmpeg — video processing/encoding.

Testing

Tested the bar widget, control center shortcut, region selection, fullscreen recording, recording stop/finalization, IPC commands,
and plugin settings on Hyprland.

• Tested on Niri
• Tested on Hyprland
• Tested on Sway
• Tested on another compositor:
• Noctalia version tested against: v5.0.1
• Plugin API level: 24

Screenshots / Videos

N/A

Checklist

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• The directory name matches the part of id after the / in plugin.toml exactly.
• It ships plugin.toml, README.md, thumbnail.webp, and translations/en.json.
• README.md follows the README template,
  documents every entry id and dependency, and includes exact panel IPC commands and launcher prefixes where applicable.
• thumbnail.webp is present and relevant; for a new plugin I created it with the thumbnail generator, and for an update I regenerated it with the generator if the visual identity or user-facing appearance changed.
• version follows semver and is bumped in this PR; plugin_api is the oldest API level this plugin requires.
• Every non-English translation in this PR uses a locale supported by Noctalia core, and I can read, write, and understand that
  language well enough to review and maintain it (no unreviewed machine/LLM translations).
• I did not edit catalog.toml; CI generates it.
• This PR touches exactly one plugin directory.

Code review attestation

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• The code is readable and not obfuscated, minified, or generated.
• It does not download and execute remote code.
• Every network call, filesystem write, and spawned process is something the description above accounts for.
• I have the right to publish this code under the license declared in plugin.toml.

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[Noctalia-CI]

1. non-blocking - region-recorder/service.luau:170,178
   The video_source options "focused" and "portal" are not implemented. Both select
   values fall through the else branch to startRecordingWithGeometry("screen"),
   the same code path as the explicit "record-fullscreen" action (service.luau:171-172).
   No focused-window or portal capture code path exists anywhere in the plugin; the
   window-snapping helper (scripts/get_windows.sh) only feeds slurp during manual
   region selection. Yet plugin.toml:20-21 offers these values and
   region-recorder/translations/en.json labels them "Focused Monitor" and "XDG
   Desktop Portal", while the PR description advertises "region, focused-window,
   portal, and fullscreen recording". Users selecting those modes silently get a
   fullscreen recording instead of what the setting promises.

2. non-blocking - region-recorder/service.luau:136-137
   stopRecording() first runs pkill -SIGINT -f . The
   quotes are literal characters in the pkill regex, but the recorder process argv
   contains the path unquoted, so this branch never matches the recorder and the
   fallback pkill -SIGINT -f always fires. Because pkill -f does an
   ERE substring match over the whole command line and scopes to the user's own
   processes, stopping the plugin's recording (or the external-exit detection at
   service.luau:150-160 firing after the plugin's own process died) will also SIGINT
   any unrelated gpu-screen-recorder, wl-screenrec, or wf-recorder session the same
   user is running outside the plugin. Impact is a prematurely stopped concurrent
   recording, not data loss, since SIGINT triggers graceful finalization.