Application inaccessible after hitting Record in LXDE

mhsabbagh / green-recorder

A simple screen recorder for Linux desktop. Supports Wayland & Xorg

GNU General Public License v3.0

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Application inaccessible after hitting Record in LXDE #86

Closed meowsus closed 6 years ago

meowsus commented 6 years ago

When recording with Green Recorder, the application helpfully hides itself, as not to sully the pixels of the produced screencast with its presence.

Unfortunately, in LXDE, it hides itself in a completely inaccessible place. This means that ffmpeg is now just recording indefinitely until its process is killed.

Possible solutions might be:

I completely missed something
Send Green Recorder to the background, rather than to a Gnome/Unity exclusive indicator zone
Add a "Minimize to tray" option

meowsus commented 6 years ago

Great work, by the way. This is one of the best screen capture applications I've ever used.

mhsabbagh commented 6 years ago

You got to be using an old version of Green Recorder because in the newer version, the system tray icon was removed completely. Thus, you can stop the recording using the "Stop" button from the program's window.

meowsus commented 6 years ago

@mhsabbagh I grabbed it off of your PPA: https://launchpad.net/~mhsabbagh/+archive/ubuntu/greenproject

I just got it off the foss-project PPA and everything seems fine. Strange.

Thanks!