byzanz-record (gif screen recording) does not work in wayland

[Jeff Ward]

Using 18.04, when wayland is selected for the session, byzanz-record doesn't work. It always errors:

> byzanz-record -c -d 8 -x 10 -y 10 -w 200 -h 150 /tmp/test.gif
Given area is not inside desktop.

I've tried making sure I'm on the top-left workspace, I've tried various sizes / dimensions for the recording.

It's a bummer that all my favorite tools for screen capture (e.g. see also shutter, https://bugs.launchpad.net/shutter/+bug/1502263) do not work in wayland.

byzanz is still available via the package manager, so I assume it's supposed to work:

root@6308ca588346:/# apt-cache show byzanz
Package: byzanz
Architecture: amd64
Version: 0.3.0+git20160312-2
Priority: optional
Section: universe/graphics
Origin: Ubuntu
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers <email address hidden>
Original-Maintainer: Markus Koschany <email address hidden>
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Installed-Size: 491
Depends: gstreamer1.0-libav, gstreamer1.0-plugins-base, gstreamer1.0-plugins-good, libc6 (>= 2.4), libcairo2 (>= 1.10.0), libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.37.3), libgstreamer-plugins-base1.0-0 (>= 1.0.0), libgstreamer1.0-0 (>= 1.4.0), libgtk-3-0 (>= 3.0.0), libxdamage1 (>= 1:1.1), libxfixes3
Filename: pool/universe/b/byzanz/byzanz_0.3.0+git20160312-2_amd64.deb
Size: 85748
MD5sum: 86bdb8b04085adb97439096824f4c9dc
SHA1: 172bed9aa0863e6c855321652b956146eb5df176
SHA256: 8a9b1dca28882265f431c6527be65a5a1c724d00823d1b4d0f81843e7fb06532
Homepage: http://git.gnome.org/browse/byzanz/
Description: small screencast creator
Description-md5: 5d5533817071b4562ad22d04430e60e5

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.