Can't record my screen with Screen Studio when AeroSpace is enabled

[emiliosheinz]

First of all, thank you for building such a great tool. I'm really enjoying it.

My setup has 3 monitor (the MacBook's built-in and two external Dell ones). When AeroSpace is enabled and I try to start a recording on a specific screen with Screen Studio, the overlays that Screen Studio should be showing individually on each screen become all cluttered in a single one which makes it impossible to start the recording.

Disabling AeroSpace solves the issue but it is not ideal since I want to record the screen with it on.

Additionally, I've tried the following on my config but it doesn't work.

[[on-window-detected]]
if.app-id = 'com.timpler.screenstudio'
check-further-callbacks = true
run = 'layout floating'

Based on that, I believe this could be related to (1) How AeroSpace manages screens and workspaces or (2) Aerospace interfering in the way the overlays are being rendered.

AeroSpace version

❯ aerospace --version
aerospace CLI client version: 0.14.2-Beta 0cb8dbdfc5ee73b8cbc200f175f467ebead55201
AeroSpace.app server version: 0.14.2-Beta 0cb8dbdfc5ee73b8cbc200f175f467ebead55201

Let me know if I van provide any additional information.

Edit 1:

Further investigating it, it looks like what is happening is that AeroSpace is moving all the overlays to the focused screen which is making them cover each other.

[andrebrito16]

Having the same problem. Any solution to this?

[emiliosheinz]

I stopped using AeroSpace for that reason. Unfortunately, I didn't find any solution for it.

[AlienOctopus]

also experiencing this

[azamuddin]

Experiencing it right now.

[wassimk]

I had the same issue. I love AeroSpace and Screen Studio and wanted them to work well together. Quitting AeroSpace before every recording and restarting it afterward was getting old fast.

I was looking for a better solution when I read in the docs you can disable AeroSpace without losing all your window positions. Perfect! Since I already use a keyboard shortcut via Hammerspoon to move and resize windows for screencasting, I just added an aerospace enable off command before the window resizing happens. Works like a charm.

If I get ambitious, I could save AeroSpace's state and toggle it back on with the same shortcut, but having to re-enable it with the menu is perfectly fine. Here is my Hammerspoon script for reference.

[andrebrito16]

@wassimk thanks for this! But after the creator of AeroSpace just ignore this one, I moved back to Yabai :)

[nikitabobko]

Created an issue: #1271

I don't care about this bug, PRs are welcome