diff --git a/record-selected.sh b/record-selected.sh
deleted file mode 100755
index 5782ac3..0000000
--- a/record-selected.sh
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,8 +0,0 @@
-#!/bin/sh -e
-
-window=$(xdotool selectwindow)
-active_sink="$(pactl get-default-sink).monitor"
-mkdir -p "$HOME/Videos"
-video="$HOME/Videos/$(date +"Video_%Y-%m-%d_%H-%M-%S.mp4")"
-gpu-screen-recorder -w "$window" -c mp4 -f 60 -a "${active_sink}.monitor" -o "$video"
-notify-send "GPU Screen Recorder" "Saved video to $video"
diff --git a/src/main.cpp b/src/main.cpp
index ecc178a..689eeb6 100644
--- a/src/main.cpp
+++ b/src/main.cpp
@@ -242,16 +242,22 @@ static bool recreate_window_pixmap(Display *dpy, Window window_id,
     // glEnable(GL_BLEND);
     // glBlendFunc(GL_SRC_ALPHA, GL_ONE_MINUS_SRC_ALPHA);
 
+    pixmap.texture_width = attr.width;
+    pixmap.texture_height = attr.height;
+
     glXBindTexImageEXT(dpy, pixmap.glx_pixmap, GLX_FRONT_EXT, NULL);
-    glGetTexLevelParameteriv(GL_TEXTURE_2D, 0, GL_TEXTURE_WIDTH,
-                             &pixmap.texture_width);
-    glGetTexLevelParameteriv(GL_TEXTURE_2D, 0, GL_TEXTURE_HEIGHT,
-                             &pixmap.texture_height);
     glTexParameteri(GL_TEXTURE_2D, GL_TEXTURE_MAG_FILTER,
                     GL_NEAREST); // GL_LINEAR );
     glTexParameteri(GL_TEXTURE_2D, GL_TEXTURE_MIN_FILTER,
                     GL_NEAREST); // GL_LINEAR);//GL_LINEAR_MIPMAP_LINEAR );
     //glTexEnvf(GL_TEXTURE_ENV, GL_TEXTURE_ENV_MODE, GL_MODULATE);
+
+    GLint gl_texture_width = 0;
+    glGetTexLevelParameteriv(GL_TEXTURE_2D, 0, GL_TEXTURE_WIDTH, &gl_texture_width);
+    if(gl_texture_width == 0) {
+        fprintf(stderr, "Warning: failed to get texture size. You are probably running an unsupported compositor and recording the selected window doesn't work at the moment. A black window will be displayed instead\n");
+    }
+
     fprintf(stderr, "texture width: %d, height: %d\n", pixmap.texture_width,
            pixmap.texture_height);
 
diff --git a/toggle-recording-selected.sh b/toggle-recording-selected.sh
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..663f360
--- /dev/null
+++ b/toggle-recording-selected.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+#!/bin/sh -e
+
+killall -INT gpu-screen-recorder && notify-send -u low 'GPU Screen Recorder' 'Stopped recording' && exit 0;
+window=$(xdotool selectwindow)
+active_sink="$(pactl get-default-sink).monitor"
+mkdir -p "$HOME/Videos"
+video="$HOME/Videos/$(date +"Video_%Y-%m-%d_%H-%M-%S.mp4")"
+notify-send -u low 'GPU Screen Recorder' "Started recording video to $video"
+gpu-screen-recorder -w "$window" -c mp4 -f 60 -a "$active_sink" -o "$video"