Peek: Peek intercepts keystrokes and often clicks making it impossible use screenrecording area

Created on 3 Jun 2018 · 10Comments · Source: phw/peek

Here on Fedora 28 I am testing out the Firefox on Wayland version, which comes shipped through the usual repos.

STR:

Start peek with Firefox on Wayland as the thing you want to screenrecord.
Click inside of the window.

What happens: It focuses/jumps to the window behind it (i guess). In my case this was Atom.

What should happen: Just let me screenrecord Firefox.

This does not happen with the "usual" Firefox (xwayland).
Screenrecording itself BTW happens – if you don't click into the area.

Peek from flathub
Firefox 60.0.1-5.fc28
GNOME

BTW this may be similar to https://github.com/phw/peek/issues/306.

Source

rugk

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Most helpful comment

In Peek v1.3.1 it gets better indeed:

clicks are possible again and not intercepted
keyboard input, however, is intercepted and does not reach Firefox (in my case)

rugk on 11 May 2019

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Actually I could reproduce it with Nautilus, so maybe it is more related to Wayland than to Firefox. Every time the nautilus window get's unfocused, I clicked on the Peek screen recording area (the "hole"):

nautilus

rugk on 19 Jun 2018

I'm having the same issue with Ubuntu 18.04 and Firefox. The window focus is not very intuitive.

Andrew-Wichmann on 20 Jun 2018

Same issue here since i've updated to Ubuntu 18.04.. Can't click through the recording window.

WilcoM on 13 Sep 2018

Actually I just noticed it is even worth: The window is actually also intercepting keystrokes! 😲

rugk on 19 Jan 2019

Any reaction by @phw here? This is a long-standing issue, and made the Peek application totally useless since my bug report. In the past (before that report), it worked flawlessly.
BTW, @Andrew-Wichmann and @WilcoM, feel free to upvote the top comment in this issue to show you are also affected.

rugk on 19 Jan 2019

Haven't used Peek in awhile but I have a use case for it again now. I'd really like to see this fixed

Andrew-Wichmann on 19 Jan 2019

In Peek v1.3.1 it gets better indeed:

clicks are possible again and not intercepted
keyboard input, however, is intercepted and does not reach Firefox (in my case)

rugk on 11 May 2019

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Same thing for me on Fedora 31, using Wayland.

mickaelistria on 14 Feb 2020

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just upgrade from Fedora 30 to 31 then 32
Same trouble with Firefox
Works fine on Chrome

peek package is the one from Fedora repo
version 1.5.0

smougenot on 7 Aug 2020

I have this problem with Peek 1.5.1-37-g70cfebd. Specifically, the program behind Peek doesn't accept clicks, and Peek gains focus instead. I'm using cinnamon/muffin on Debian.