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MacOS Stage Manager causes recordings to contain dotted line of recording area indicator #1267

Description

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macOS version: 26.2
Kap version: 3.6.0

Steps to reproduce

  1. Activate stage manager in "Desktop & Dock" system settings
  2. open kap, see the dark-tint over the screen and the floating bar with the red recording button.
  • Note that the dark-tint does not seem to extend quite all the way to the top of the screen.
  1. select an area for recording and record
  2. Result: the recorded video's crop contains the top dotted line of kap's recording area indicator

Current behavior

Kapture.2026-02-05.at.10.30.14.mp4

In this video we can note two things:

  1. stage manager is on and the video contains the top dotted line
  2. when I toggle stage manager, the position of the dotted line shifts down in the video's frame, visually (through motion) indicating stage manager has an effect the offset of the crop

Expected behavior

kap recordings should not contain the dotted lines of the recording area indicator

Workaround

Turn off stage manager before starting a kap recording. If I do this then the dark-tinted area extends all the way to the top of my screen, and the recordings do not contain the dotted line.

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