Ctrl+Alt+Shift+R screen recording not working anymore in 20.10 (Pipewire is now a requirement)

[Julien Olivier]

I'm using gnome-shell with wayland (don't know if that matters), and, when I press CTRL-ALT-SHIFT-R, nothing happens. I checked my keyboard shortcuts, and this shortcut is supposed to trigger screencasting.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 20.10
Package: gnome-shell 3.38.1-1ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.8.0-25.26-generic 5.8.14
Uname: Linux 5.8.0-25-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu50
Architecture: amd64
CasperMD5CheckResult: skip
CurrentDesktop: GNOME
Date: Sun Oct 25 10:39:48 2020
DisplayManager: gdm3
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
InstallationDate: Installed on 2020-02-07 (260 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 19.10 "Eoan Ermine" - Release amd64 (20191017)
ProcEnviron:
 TERM=xterm-256color
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
RelatedPackageVersions: mutter-common 3.38.1-1ubuntu1
SourcePackage: gnome-shell
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to groovy on 2020-10-22 (2 days ago)

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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

[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

Sounds like this is now also blocked on bug 1802533.

[corrado venturini (corradoventu)]

Same problem on Ubuntu 20.10 and 21.04 with display x11.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package gnome-shell - 3.38.3-2ubuntu1

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gnome-shell (3.38.3-2ubuntu1) hirsute; urgency=medium

  * Merge with debian, containing new upstream release (LP: #1915089)
  * debian/patches: Correctly handle login cancellation and failures.
    Ensure the GDM workers are terminated before restarting a new auth
    request, allowing fingerprint authentication to be restarted.
    (LP: #1915066)
  * debian/patches: Show errors on fingerprint failures and limit retries.
    (LP: #1865838)
  * debian/control: BD on gstreamer and pipewire, depend on gstreamer1.0-pipewire.
    Enable building with pipewire now that is in main and add runtime
    dependency on gstreamer-pipewire to gnome-shell (LP: #1901391).

gnome-shell (3.38.3-2) unstable; urgency=medium

  * Team upload
  * d/patches: Update to 3.38.3-3-ge3dc4401d from gnome-3-38 branch
    - Fix opening Extensions app from notification
    - Fix workspace layout in right-to-left locales
    - Don't break window focusing if trying to take an area screenshot while
      an application such as a game has an X11 grab (LP: #1910235)

gnome-shell (3.38.3-1) unstable; urgency=medium

  * Team upload
  * d/watch: Only watch for 3.38.x versions
  * New upstream release

 -- Marco Trevisan (Treviño) <email address hidden> Tue, 09 Feb 2021 05:16:10 +0100

[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

Looks like the mutter part is still in proposed (3.38.3-2ubuntu1).

[corrado venturini (corradoventu)]

Still not working in x11 nor in Wayland
corrado@corrado-x7-hh-0212:~$ apt policy gnome-shell
gnome-shell:
  Installed: 3.38.3-2ubuntu2
  Candidate: 3.38.3-2ubuntu2
  Version table:
 *** 3.38.3-2ubuntu2 500
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu hirsute/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
corrado@corrado-x7-hh-0212:~$

[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

Fix released in mutter 3.38.3-2ubuntu1 (not gnome-shell)

[Salem Yaslim (xlmnxp)]

Can this fix backported to ubuntu 20.10?

[Marco Trevisan (Treviño) (3v1n0)]

Unfortunately not, because we'd need to depend on libpipewire that isn't in the main repository for 20.10.

[Potet (5tein4rne)]

I'm on Ubuntu 21.04, upgraded to Gnome 40. My system should be fully up to date, but this problem is still there for me. Is this normal, or should the fix have reached my machine by now?

I had the problem in 20.10 as well, though it worked on 20.04. Always in Wayland.

When trying to run pipewire in the terminal I get the following error, which may or may not be related:
```
[E][000002893.342993][module-protocol-native.c:578 lock_socket()] server 0x56383cd9dfe0: unable to lock lockfile '/run/user/1000/pipewire-0.lock': Resource temporarily unavailable (maybe another daemon is running)
[E][000002893.343190][conf.c:309 load_module()] config 0x56383cd834e0: could not load mandatory module "libpipewire-module-protocol-native": Resource temporarily unavailable
[E][000002893.343234][conf.c:383 create_object()] can't find factory spa-node-factory
```

[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

GNOME 40 is not supported in Ubuntu yet so please don't report bugs about it. Also this bug is closed already. If you have any problems with the supported packages in Ubuntu then please open a new bug.