Kooha icon indicating copy to clipboard operation
Kooha copied to clipboard

Option to hide main window during recordings

Open stpnwf opened this issue 4 years ago • 4 comments

I would like to completely hide the main application window with the counter when recording. I find that distracting in the recording.

The user would stop recording by pressing a keyboard shortcut/"esc" or by going to the Top Bar, clicking on an icon and choosing the option to stop the recording.

stpnwf avatar Jun 19 '21 19:06 stpnwf

I've been thinking of a solution to this.

Putting an icon on top bar is not an option since gnome doesn't support that natively, without kstatus indicator etc.

I'm thinking of adding a minimize/hide button, but the issue is that, it would just be better to move it in a separate workspace

SeaDve avatar Jun 20 '21 00:06 SeaDve

Just an idea, unsure if it is possible, but is there a way to get the window to behave the same way the mouse pointer does? The pointer is usually invisible in the recording unless the user marks a box; can the window be hidden in the recording the same way?

stpnwf avatar Jun 20 '21 03:06 stpnwf

Just an idea, unsure if it is possible, but is there a way to get the window to behave the same way the mouse pointer does?

It seems technically possible, but that'll require accessing the stream, which is hard since there is currently no pipewire library for python. But definitely a good idea

SeaDve avatar Jun 20 '21 03:06 SeaDve

BTW in kooha 2.0.0, it is now possible to record a window, even though it is not visible in the screen or on other workspace, which is a semi fix to this

SeaDve avatar Jun 20 '21 08:06 SeaDve