Does not run on Mint 17

[Charles Goodwin]

Kazam 1.5.0 installed on Mint 17 using the Trusty PPA.

The GUI appears but when trying to record (default settings) a video, nothing appears to happen and these exceptions appear in the CLI log:

charles@charles-mint-Z500 ~ $ kazam

(kazam:12285): Gtk-WARNING **: Can't set a parent on widget which has a parent

(kazam:12285): Gtk-WARNING **: Can't set a parent on widget which has a parent

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/kazam/app.py", line 553, in cb_record_clicked
    self.run_counter()
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/kazam/app.py", line 802, in run_counter
    self.countdown = CountdownWindow(self.indicator, show_window=prefs.countdown_splash)
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/kazam/frontend/window_countdown.py", line 71, in __init__
    self.setupPixman(LIBPIXMAN_NAME)
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/kazam/frontend/window_countdown.py", line 122, in setupPixman
    libpixman = cdll.LoadLibrary(name)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.4/ctypes/__init__.py", line 429, in LoadLibrary
    return self._dlltype(name)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.4/ctypes/__init__.py", line 351, in __init__
    self._handle = _dlopen(self._name, mode)
OSError: libpixman-1.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/kazam/app.py", line 553, in cb_record_clicked
    self.run_counter()
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/kazam/app.py", line 802, in run_counter
    self.countdown = CountdownWindow(self.indicator, show_window=prefs.countdown_splash)
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/kazam/frontend/window_countdown.py", line 71, in __init__
    self.setupPixman(LIBPIXMAN_NAME)
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/kazam/frontend/window_countdown.py", line 122, in setupPixman
    libpixman = cdll.LoadLibrary(name)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.4/ctypes/__init__.py", line 429, in LoadLibrary
    return self._dlltype(name)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.4/ctypes/__init__.py", line 351, in __init__
    self._handle = _dlopen(self._name, mode)
OSError: libpixman-1.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
INFO Main - Unable to delete one of the temporary files. Check your temporary directory.

[David Klasinc (bigwhale)]

Thank you for your report.

Do you have libpixman-1-0 package installed? For new countdown timer it is required and it appears it wasn't included in the dependencies.

[Charles Goodwin (charlesgoodwin)]

Yes it is installed, as demonstrated by this:

$ apt-get install libpixman-1-0
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
libpixman-1-0 is already the newest version.
0 to upgrade, 0 to newly install, 0 to remove and 1 not to upgrade.