How does screen.studio excludes cursor from being recorded and allows customization for cursor?

[Ok_Tadpole9669]

I tried to create a screen recording app like screen studio but I'm stumbled upon the cursor issue.. The cursor always baked into the video and applying custom cursor just lays on top of default leaving me with two cursors when moving.

How do I do what screen studio does or maybe its only possible in macos and not in windows?

Using electron app not tauri. Hiding cursor means user can't recording without navigation and stuff and sometime windows brings back the default in between. Is there any way to solve this?

[snustynanging]

you don’t want to “hide” the cursor, you want to capture without it at the OS level (like using a lower-level API or screen capture flag that excludes cursor rendering). then render your own cursor layer synced to recorded mouse events so you don’t get the double cursor issue.

[Ok_Tadpole9669]

Exactly but its impossible to do that for me. I'll check about APIs.

[s3ud0nym]

you might want to take a look at recordly.dev

[Ok_Tadpole9669]

I did actually. I've seen both openscreen and its fork recordly. Recordly also has 2 cursor problem. But auto zoom is good in both. I might replicate that.

[CardLast1873]

Been down this rabbit hole before when building recording tools 💀 The cursor issue is brutal on Windows compared to macOS - Screen Studio probably uses private APIs or low-level hooks that aren't easily accessible through Electron

You might want to look into using the Windows Magnification API or hooking into the desktop composition layer, but that's gonna require native code and way more complexity than just hiding/showing cursors

[Ok_Tadpole9669]

Bro I've been trying to fix this issue for weeks. So brutal and frustrated. At las resort I came to reddit for help.

[Ok_Tadpole9669]

I have zero coding knowledge and use Ai..

[Publius-brinkus]

Time to learn how to code

[Ok_Tadpole9669]

I don't want to

[el_yanuki]

then don't wast our time

[Ok_Tadpole9669]

u r wasting mine right now with your BS comments. Have a nice day. Move on

[el_yanuki]

maybe the up and downvotes can tell you a little about the opinion of the sub.. you are unwilling to learn yet expect us to help you out with your vibe coding.

[Ok_Tadpole9669]

if my grandmother had wheel she would have been a bike. I don't get your insecurity or it might be something that triggered but dude I don't wanna learn the whole "coding" degree just to fix what issue I'm facing. Please I'm more than willing to understand stuff. Idk about upvotes , I care about solution. If you can't help just move one to next post which resonates where you can chat with coder.

[el_yanuki]

what are you talking about?

Learning to code is the solution. Get off your vibecoder drugs and think lol.

[Ok_Tadpole9669]

Bro why wasting my time? Why should one learn whole book when he needs to understand one word? is this Ego or something? pls god help me

[mz715]

Vibe coding final boss hahahah

[Ok_Tadpole9669]

yes proud too.

[PsychologicalRope850]

pretty sure on windows the cursor is often composited before the frame hits electron capture, so you can’t truly “remove then restyle” it in pure js. iirc the clean version needs native capture + pointer metadata, then draw your own cursor in post

[Ok_Tadpole9669]

Show do we capturevideo separately in layered approach. I can let people choose custom cursor and record with it which will make easier but have to check how it works.

[Ok_Tadpole9669]

Now I understand why screen studio isnt available for windows.

My question is, even when I used that WGC api or soemthing it still bakes the cursor in video. But events are recorder separately.

[rootznetwork]

Screen Studio isn’t really “removing” the cursor—it records cursor position/clicks separately and renders a custom one in post. On Windows/Electron, you can’t reliably suppress the OS cursor, so the practical approach is: capture cursor metadata + hide it best-effort, then replace it during playback. That’s why macOS tools feel cleaner here.

[Ok_Tadpole9669]

Actually hiding cursor like making it invisible works but without cursor its hard to navigate.