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SimpleScreenRecorder write video with black screen if I use GNOME session on Wayland

Bug #1835450 reported by Artyom Pozharov on 2019-07-04

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #1723399: SimpleScreenRecorder doesn't work in Wayland sessions. Edit Remove

This bug affects 1 person

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	GNOME Shell	New	Unknown	auto-gitlab.gnome.org-gnome-gnome-shell #1427
	gnome-shell (Ubuntu)	New	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

Video with bug is here: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-shell-extension-ubuntu-dock/+bug/1832946/+attachment/5274836/+files/simplescreenrecorder-2019-07-03_13.12.21.mkv
P.S. This problem affects other GNOME on Wayland systems as Fedora or Debian. So I will write to GNOME Project and public this apport too.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 19.10
Package: gnome-shell 3.32.2-2ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.0.0-17.18-generic 5.0.8
Uname: Linux 5.0.0-17-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu3
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Thu Jul 4 20:03:23 2019
DisplayManager: gdm3
InstallationDate: Installed on 2019-07-01 (3 days ago)
InstallationMedia:

RelatedPackageVersions: mutter-common 3.32.2+git20190626-1ubuntu1
SourcePackage: gnome-shell
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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Artyom Pozharov (artyom-pozharov) wrote on 2019-07-04:

Dependencies.txt Edit (23.9 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
GsettingsChanges.txt Edit (708 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcCpuinfoMinimal.txt Edit (1.1 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcEnviron.txt Edit (115 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ShellJournal.txt Edit (28.8 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")

Changed in gnome-shell (Ubuntu):
assignee:	nobody → Artyom Pozharov (artyom-pozharov)

Artyom Pozharov (artyom-pozharov) on 2019-07-04

Changed in gnome-shell (Ubuntu):
assignee:	Artyom Pozharov (artyom-pozharov) → nobody

Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater) on 2019-07-04

Changed in gnome-shell:
status:	Unknown → New

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Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt) wrote on 2019-07-05:

Come to think of it, this probably isn't a bug. X11 screen recorders can't work in Wayland sessions.

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Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt) wrote on 2019-07-05:

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular bug has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug 1723399, so it is being marked as such. Please look at the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you can provide, or to see if there is a workaround for the bug. Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Feel free to continue to report any other bugs you may find.