Comment 0 for bug 1483581

I'm trying to record interaction with UI controls using byzanz-record, but am running into an issue where it will cut the beginning/end off of a recording if it detects no screen repaints. It can be reproduced by recording a GIF where the mouse is moved within the recording region continuously for the entire duration, and another where nothing happens for the entire duration. The latter will be a millisecond or two in duration.

The way I'm working around it is to print a message to the console every 100 milliseconds to force screen repaints. Even though this occurs outside of the recording region, it still works.

I'm not sure if this is the correct place to report bugs against byzanz; the only other place I saw was here:

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?pkg=byzanz;dist=unstable

Ubuntu release:
Description: Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS
Release: 14.04

Package version:
byzanz:
  Installed: 0.3.0+git20140123-1
  Candidate: 0.3.0+git20140123-1
  Version table:
 *** 0.3.0+git20140123-1 0
        500 http://no.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty/universe amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status