STEPS TO REPRODUCE 1. Meta+R, or else Launch Spectacle and make a start a new Rectangular Region recording 2. Drag a box to define an area and start recording 3. Move the point er around in the area 4. Finish the recording OBSERVED RESULT The saved recording has only the final frame in it. EXPECTED RESULT The saved recording has everything it said it was going to record. SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS Operating System: Fedora Linux 42 KDE Plasma Version: 6.4.80 KDE Frameworks Version: 6.18.0 Qt Version: 6.9.1 Kernel Version: 6.15.8-200.fc42.x86_64 (64-bit) Graphics Platform: Wayland Processors: 16 × AMD Ryzen 7 7840U w/ Radeon™ 780M Graphics Memory: 16 GiB of RAM (14.9 GiB usable) Graphics Processor: AMD Radeon 780M Graphics Also reproduced on a different machine with Intel graphics running KDE Linux, so hardware is probably not a factor here. ADDITIONAL INFORMATION Affects all recording types (WebM, MP4, WebP, and GIF) the same way. Only affects Rectangular Region screen recordings. Full Screen and Window recordings are fine.
I can confirm on master Operating System: Kubuntu 25.04 KDE Plasma Version: 6.4.80 KDE Frameworks Version: 6.18.0 Qt Version: 6.9.1 Kernel Version: 6.14.0-23-generic (64-bit) Graphics Platform: Wayland Processors: 8 × Intel® Core™ i7-8565U CPU @ 1.80GHz Memory: 16 GiB of RAM (15.3 GiB usable) Graphics Processor: Intel® UHD Graphics 620
Git commit eb45121e755f14d5ccec4a1cc5769b879b52f33c by Xaver Hugl. Committed on 19/08/2025 at 23:14. Pushed by zamundaaa into branch 'master'. plugins/screencast: update the presentation timestamp when rendering Otherwise it's just stuck at zero forever, which breaks Spectacle's recording. M +1 -0 src/plugins/screencast/regionscreencastsource.cpp M +1 -1 src/plugins/screencast/regionscreencastsource.h https://invent.kde.org/plasma/kwin/-/commit/eb45121e755f14d5ccec4a1cc5769b879b52f33c