I'm trying to use Kazam to take videos of the screen. It always records the 1/4 of top left of my screen, no matter what I do. No matter if I select the entire screen, a window or select a piece of the screen to record.
I guess it has to do with scaling. I use scaling in my ubuntu because it's a 4k monitor. Is there a way to overcome this?
Indeed, has to do with the scaling configuration of your monitor. I also have a 4K and I need to use 200% scaling.
This patch solves the issue, it's very simple to apply. I tested it on Ubuntu 22.04.1 and it works perfectly.
Found the same issue on the kazam github https://github.com/hzbd/kazam/pull/47.
@sllorente prepared the path for 1 file only (instead of 2) which fixes the issue, see https://bugs.launchpad.net/kazam/+bug/1283424/comments/13
The patch can be downloaded from https://bugs.launchpad.net/kazam/+bug/1283424/+attachment/5499618/+files/kazam-1.4.5-patch
--- kazam-1.4.5/backend/prefs.py 2014-08-18 18:48:36.000000000 +0200
+++ kazam/backend/prefs.py 2021-05-23 15:30:44.876596507 +0200
@@ -312,22 +312,31 @@
self.default_screen = Gdk.Screen.get_default()
self.logger.debug("Found {0} monitor(s).".format(self.default_screen.get_n_monitors()))
combined_width = 0
combined_height = 0
for i in range(self.default_screen.get_n_monitors()):
rect = self.default_screen.get_monitor_geometry(i)
self.logger.debug(" Monitor {0} - X: {1}, Y: {2}, W: {3}, H: {4}".format(i,
scale = self.default_screen.get_monitor_scale_factor(i)
self.logger.debug(" Monitor {0} - X: {1}, Y: {2}, W: {3}, H: {4}, scale: {5}".format(i,
rect.x,
rect.y,
rect.width,
rect.height))
self.screens.append({"x": rect.x,
"y": rect.y,
"width": rect.width,
"height": rect.height})
rect.height,
scale))
self.screens.append({"x": rect.x * scale,
"y": rect.y * scale,
"width": rect.width * scale,
"height": rect.height * scale,
"scale": scale})
combined_width = combined_width + rect.width * scale
combined_height = combined_height + rect.height *scale
if self.default_screen.get_n_monitors() > 1:
self.combined_screen = {"x": 0, "y": 0,
"width": self.default_screen.get_width(),
"height": self.default_screen.get_height()}
"width": combined_width,
"height": combined_height}
self.logger.debug(" Combined screen - X: 0, Y: 0, W: {0}, H: {1}".format(self.default_screen.get_width(),
self.default_screen.get_height()))
else:
FYI the file can be patched with the command
sudo patch /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/kazam/backend/prefs.py < ~/Desktop/kazam-1.4.5.diff
