MacOS fullscreen terminal window produces an empty gif

[ddxtanx]

Describe the bug Every time I call t-rec, whether it be in iTerm2, Terminal, or WezTerm, the produced gif is always blank.

To Reproduce Steps to reproduce the behavior:

0. I installed it both via cargo and via brew, both lead to the same options
1. I went to any folder and ran t-rec
2. I entered some commands, and exited with CTRL-D
3. I opened the gif and it was a blank white rectangle.

Expected behavior I expect the gif to be populated w/ my terminal recording.

Screenshots This is the output from t-rec.

Your MacOS Version

• [x] 11 Big Sur
• [ ] 10.15 Catalina
• [ ] 10.14 Mojave
• [ ] 10.13 High Sierra
• [ ] 10.12 Sierra
• [ ] Older than 10.12

Your Architecture

• [ ] x86 / Intel
• [x] arm / Apple Silicon

Your Terminal

• [x] iTerm
• [ ] Alacitty
• [x] Apple Terminal
• [x] Other: Wezterm

Additional context

• I'm running zsh with a couple custom plugins, if they would have any impact

[sassman]

Can you please double check if your screen recording settings would allow your terminal to record anything? Should look like this:

I'm also running on MacOS M1 and don't have any issues.

[ddxtanx]

I have enabled screen recording for all the terminals I’ve used t-rec on. Even with that it still won’t record

[sassman]

You could try to run in --verbose mode and check if the temp-dir (named: Frame cache dir) is filling up with frames. Then see what is to see on those frames.

[ddxtanx]

In the folder listed (in this case it was /var/folders/89/hxbx_tts6vd_5gdhbfyhn1300000gn/T/.tmpkHmg9F) there is only one file t-rec-frame-000000255.bmp which is empty just like the GIF. Preview complains that it is damaged or a format it cannot recognize.

[ddxtanx]

Interestingly, it now seems to only be a problem with the terminal window being fullscreened. Native terminal, iTerm2 and WezTerm all work in windowed mode, but none of them work in fullscreen mode

[sassman]

Oh, that is surprising. Never tested that tbh.