How to Burn the Screen in Endless OS

#1

Pressing ctrl+alt+shift+R you record everything you do on your desktop.
An orange ball will appear
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Indicating when you are recording
To end simply press the ctrl+alt+shift+R.
The generated file is .webm and is saved directly to the videos folder in the file.

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#2

Is there anyway i can stop this function: I want to use peek software for screen recording and unfortunately below error is being displayed “Could not start recording, already an active recording using org.gnome.Shell.Screencast?”

#3

@Somasekhar
https://support.endlessm.com/hc/en-us/articles/115005151806--How-to-record-Endless-OS-screen-and-create-a-tutorial-video-

#4

Well, Thankyou, I am aware of that “ctrl+alt+shift+r” recording thing but i dont want to use that becuase it records the entire screen however i want to record online classes with the help of Mypaint+wacom tablet so want only the selected area to get recorded which is available with “Peek” software. so kindly help me deal with the above error.
Thanks in advance.

#5

@Somasekhar
Something that would help us a lot to understand the problem would be this:

  1. Open the application called ‘Terminal’
  2. In this application run the command:

eos-diagnostics

  1. The above command will create a file with the information of your system (example: eos-diagnostic-160614_111731_UTC + 0100.txt); Send us this file so we can analyze and see a possible solution
#6

eos-diagnostic-171216_130159_UTC 0530.txt (356.7 KB)

PFA

#7

Its been more than a month since i uploaded the diagnostic file. Can any anyone explain me how to disable default screen-cast to use “PEEK” software to record screen.

#8

@Somasekhar

  1. Open the application called ‘Terminal’
  2. In this application run the command:
rm -f eos-fix-ostree-repo
wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/endlessm/eos-meta/master/eos-tech-support/eos-fix-ostree-repo
chmod +x eos-fix-ostree-repo
sudo ./eos-fix-ostree-repo
#10

I have run that in the terminal.

#11

@Somasekhar I think the error message is a little confusing. From the software standpoint, the error is unknown – it is merely suggesting the built-in shell screencast as a possible reason (probably because it is a common mistake that users make), but that is not the problem in your case. The problem is with MP4, most likely due to a need for unsupported licensed codecs. Please click on the arrow to the right of “Record as MP4” and select either GIF or WebM. I have tested here, and I see the same error message as you with MP4, but both GIF and WebM are working fine for me.

Roddy

#12

Well WebM works. Thanks a lot Mr Roddy!:smile:

#14