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vokoscreenNG is a powerful screencast creator in many languages to record the screen, an area or a window (Linux only). Recording of audio from multiple sources is supported. With the built-in camera support, you can make your video more personal. Other tools such as systray, magnifying glass, countdown, timer, Showclick and Halo support will help
https://linuxecke.volkoh.de/vokoscreen/vokoscreen.html
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Recording area no longer a seperate window? #258

Open BerndJM opened 1 year ago

BerndJM commented 1 year ago

In older versions (at least 3.2.0) the recording area (Bereich) was handled as a seperate window. This was very nice and helpfull e.g. to hide ist temporarily with a keyboard shortcut (at least on Linux Mint) when not recording. In the last version this is no longer possible, the recording area is no longer a seperate window. Is there a specific reason why these behavior has changed?

vkohaupt commented 1 year ago

Too many desktops on Linux and everyone treats window differently. Worse still, some desktops don't return reasonable values for where the window is placed.

sysdbugfactory commented 5 months ago

first time user, I arrived here while looking for how to hide the area overlay from the recording.

the online help says "The area display can be hidden by minimizing or closing the area display in the window bar. " except the area display is not a separate window. so I have no idea how to record the area without the overlay appearing in the recording.

major bummer that renders vokoscreenng useless, I'm pretty sure there a trivial way to do this, but I cannot find it and the manual gives an outdated advice.

it would be nice to update the help file so it reflects the current state of things.

vkohaupt commented 5 months ago

Thanks for the tip. The online help has been adapted, see online help.

But now to your problem: Please send the vokoscreenNG protocol after a “start” and “stop”. The log contains all the information to quickly recognize your surroundings.