Mouse pointer toggle in the screenshot/screencast dialog is hard to discover

[Philip Yip]

Press the Print Screen button, select the Record Screen option and then press capture [1]. The screen recording works as expected however does not display the mouse cursor making it hard to use the screen capture for a tutorial without using a third-party capture device.

The screen cast should capture the mouse pointer by default. Or [1] you include an option to show/hide the mouse pointer in the recording.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 24.04
Package: xorg 1:7.7+23ubuntu2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 6.8.0-11.11-generic 6.8.0-rc4
Uname: Linux 6.8.0-11-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.28.0-0ubuntu1
Architecture: amd64
BootLog: Error: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/var/log/boot.log'
CasperMD5CheckResult: pass
CompositorRunning: None
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Sun Mar 10 12:04:47 2024
DistUpgraded: Fresh install
DistroCodename: noble
DistroVariant: ubuntu
ExtraDebuggingInterest: Yes
GraphicsCard:
 Intel Corporation HD Graphics 530 [8086:1912] (rev 06) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
   Subsystem: Dell HD Graphics 530 [1028:06b9]
InstallationDate: Installed on 2024-03-10 (0 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 24.04 LTS "Noble Numbat" - Daily amd64 (20240306)
Lsusb:
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 Bus 001 Device 002: ID 046d:c534 Logitech, Inc. Unifying Receiver
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 Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0003 Linux Foundation 3.0 root hub
MachineType: Dell Inc. OptiPlex 7040
ProcEnviron:
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SourcePackage: xorg
Symptom: display
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
dmi.bios.date: 07/14/2022
dmi.bios.release: 1.24
dmi.bios.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.bios.version: 1.24.0
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dmi.product.name: OptiPlex 7040
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version.xserver-xorg-video-nouveau: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau 1:1.0.17-2build1

[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

This looks like just bad UI design. The option to include the pointer already exists but it's disabled by default and not obvious because the button looks exactly like the mouse pointer itself (bottom right of the dialog). Please select that option in the screen recorder dialog before starting the recording.

[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

Tracking in https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/-/issues/6847