Key shortcuts to control recording

[lcreid]

An "impossible" key sequence for stopping recording, and another for pausing it (when I implement pause).

[lcreid]

Struggling with this one. Gtk calls the keys "accelerators". Not clear whether simply putting accelerators on the tray icon menu would do it, but I should try.

[lcreid]

Well, stopping at least could be as simple as installing a Cinnamon key sequence that sends Ctrl-C to screencaster, by finding the screencaster process and interrupting it (killall?).

[lcreid]

Gtk passes key presses to the focused widget. You could probably hook into the X11 event loop way down. gtkRecordMyDesktop doesn't do anything funky like that. I didn't read every line of code, but enough, I think. I suspect it's in the actual C code for RecordMyDesktop (command line version). I think the more canonical approach is the one from my previous comment: Have screencaster check take arguments that allow it to control itself, then if one of those arguments is present, look for the existing instance of screencaster and send it a signal.

The programming is straightforward. Looks like to install you use gconftool-2 in the postinst script of the .deb. However, you have to do it for each user, apparently. That's not cool. How about if I do it in the program, so it's only installed when I'm running? Alternatively, there must be a way to set key bindings for all users.

[lcreid]

Did it by running gconftool-2 at program start. Wouldn't work for other platforms, but then the whole program is Linux dependent.

[lcreid]

This was never working. I added a DBus pause_record message, and this works now. I had to use a Metacity built-in command. I can't seem to just invent one myself. Now I just need to do it using the gtk2 calls instead of gconftool-2.