Can't record GNOME 3 top bar/upper part of the screen

[jjnilton]

There's no way to record GNOME 3 top bar neither stuff that is on the upper part of the screen, due the size of the window title bar, where is located the record button. Then it's not possible to record a full screen application nor the address bar of a browser (if it's full screen), for example.

[phw]

No good idea about the Gnome top bar, since the Window can't move there. I had given some thought to the other use cases:

1. Real full screen recording: IMHO Gif is not well suited for full screen recording, but I was thinking about enabling a full screen mode (e.g. hit F11 and use keyboard shortcuts to trigger the recording). Not very high priority though
2. Recording area not reachable due to window borders and conrols: This is obviously a limitation of the UI, and one I thought about before doing Peek. However, I like the UI this way so much that this is a tradeoff I was willing to make. There are a few things I could do to reduce the impact of this, though:
   a. Maybe make the position (top, bottom) of the recording button configurable or even auto adjust. The very first version used a bottom recording button, I liked it better at the top. But why not change it.
   b. Have some recording mode where the controls will fade out

[b4j4]

Another interesting idea would be to draw a rectangle with the mouse, the area you want to record, as already happens with some screen recorders and screen capture tools.

[fbruetting]

Maybe you can copy the workflow of Shutter optionally (but also keep the current one, because there you possibly could drag the window while recording). ;)

[tankgit]

I found a way to record the screen with top bar(gnome) @phw @jjnilton

1. run peek from command line with --no-headerbar.
2. and then press 'Ctrl+Alt+R' to start recording, there will be 3s count-down, and during this time, move the recording area to wherever you want, including top bar. (you can move it by pressing the hotkey and left mouse button at the edge of the window, in my case, it's SUPER+LMB)
3. enjoy your recording with top bar ^_^

[jfernandz]

1. run peek from command line with --no-headerbar.

@tankgit I've noticed that's not necessary. However it keeps recording the bottom border of peek's window.

[fbruetting]

Other solutions:
• Move Peeks window by holdung the Super key down and dragging the window with the mouse across the top bar.
• The same is possible via Alt + F7 + Arrow keys (or mouse).
• Set an additional monitor to be positioned above your main screen, then you can drag Peeks window over the top bar.

[Coeur-Noir]

An easy way to « screenshot » part of or whole panel is indeed very much needed.

And it's not only a Gnome-3 limitation.

There should not be any headerbar to the recording area, in order to move it anywhere on the screen. The functions of peek could stand behind its app' icon.

[ohsix]

if there was a button to flip the title bar to the bottom ...

[Coeur-Noir]

…or left or right, depending on which screen edge you need to record, maybe ?

[RoneoOrg]

None of the solutions above worked for me, but the Gnome extension EasyScreenCast fullfield my needs. I'm using Debian 10, with Gnome 3.30.2.