Recordmydesktop problem in FC15

[tam2tam]

When using recordmydesktop it opens okay. When I click record, the top bar disappears from view. Cannot see the stop icon. Cannot do anything but close other applications and hit Ctl Alt Del to logout.

I know this has been posted before with no resolution. Has someone else experienced this? How did they fix the problem.

Tried using ffmpeg to record.
ffmpeg -f x11grab -s 1024x768 -r 30 -i :0.0 ~/out.mpg
Now it did record, but only the desktop background, not the windows that I wanted it to record. You can see the mouse move around, change into a cursor (I was in the console briefly). Opened an app which did not appear in the recording. Ghosts?? Anyone else experienced this?

You can see the output here...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=75QiF89ktj4

[tam2tam]

Nobody have any ideas on the problems I am experiencing with both recordmydesktop and ffmpeg. Gues it may have something to do with my hardware (graphics) and software driver.

Anyway as this is a fresh install going to upgrade to Fedora 16 in the next day or so.

See what happens after upgrade.

[RHamel]

There is a desktop recording function that is built into F15 Gnome that can be started and stopped by pressing Control+Shift+Alt+R

Control+Shift+Alt+R keybinding starts and stops the recording. (Note: this functionality is currently missing in some distribution packages.) A red circle is displayed in the bottom right corner of the screen when the recording is in progress. After the recording is finished, a file named 'shell-%d%u-%c.webm' is saved in the home directory. In the filename, %d is the date, %u is a string that makes the filename unique, and %c is a counter that is incremented each time a recording is made within a single gnome-shell session.

[Dutchy]

Hitting the Windows/super button works.
It is a bit annoying though and Gnome's Istanbul doesn't has this problem (but it doesn't has as many options).

[tam2tam]

Hi Dutchy, istanbul did the trick.

Which is the windows super button?

I had the same problem with Fedora 16 and recordmydesktop.

Thanks.

RHamel, thanks for the advice, Did not seem to work for me though

[solo2101]

I found that you need to disable two options to make it work...

Advanced -> Misc

uncheck "Outline Capture Area On Screen" and "Reset Capture Area"