eidete stops recording instantly

Which Desktopmanager do you use?

Cinnamon on Ubuntu, so it's the customized gnome-shell/mutter from the Mint project..

Ok, i just downloaded the prior version: eidete_0.1-0~r48+pkg6~oneiric1_amd64.deb
from https://launchpad.net/~shnatsel/+archive/eidete-daily/+packages?field.name_filter=&field.status_filter=superseded&field.series_filter=oneiric

This one works. So it has to be some change between them...

Does the main window stay minimized when it stops recording or does it pop up again like it normally does when you want to finish a recording by focusing eidete?

It stays minimized.

I am not sure if this is something that should be fixed in eidete. Seems to me it might be a bug in the component sending the wrong 'visibility notification' when eidete is minimized. It works fine with unity and gnome classic for me.

Fixing it could be done by reverting the old method of attaching a handler to a wnck window instance instead of the gtk main window. But I would rework that so that it works when focus follows mouse is active.

Alternativly I would try and see what exactly the XEvent looks like that is responsible for pausing recording right after minimizing eidete.

I tested it on gnome-shell, same behavior, so it's probably mutter. I reverted the change, but I'd be glad if the other method could be made working (or a different more elegant one) especially for dropping wnck as dependency and getting rid of that hacky (but working!) code.

You could get the wnck instance by using the xid (or the window name) directly instead of just attaching to the currently active one. Using the currently active one breaks eidete for me because I use unity with focus follows mouse, so it attaches the handler to whatever I have focused when eidete is launched.