gtk-recordmydesktop crashes on launch

[Eneko Castresana]

1) The release of Ubuntu you are using, via 'lsb_release -rd' or System -> About Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 17.10
Release: 17.10

2) The version of the package you are using, via 'apt-cache policy pkgname' or by checking in Software Center
gtk-recordmydesktop:
  Installed: 0.3.8-4.1ubuntu1
  Candidate: 0.3.8-4.1ubuntu1
  Version table:
 *** 0.3.8-4.1ubuntu1 500
        500 http://es.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu artful/universe amd64 Packages
        500 http://es.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu artful/universe i386 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

3) What you expected to happen
Launch

4) What happened instead
When launched from terminal I get this error:
$ gtk-recordmydesktop
/usr/share/themes/Ambiance/gtk-2.0/apps/mate-panel.rc:30: error: invalid string constant "murrine-scrollbar", expected valid string constant
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/gtk-recordmydesktop", line 43, in <module>
    main()
  File "/usr/bin/gtk-recordmydesktop", line 40, in main
    tr=rmdSimple.simpleWidget()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/recordMyDesktop/rmdSimple.py", line 509, in __init__
    self.__subWidgets__()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/recordMyDesktop/rmdSimple.py", line 88, in __subWidgets__
    self.image=sT.GtkThumbSelector(self,self.values[5],self.hidden,2000)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/recordMyDesktop/rmdSelectThumb.py", line 69, in __init__
    self.__subsample__(sroot,self.wwidth,self.wheight,self.root,self.factor)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/recordMyDesktop/rmdSelectThumb.py", line 79, in __subsample__
    im2.put_pixel(k/stride,i/stride,im1.get_pixel(k,i))
AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'get_pixel'

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Searching for "invalid string constant murrine-scrollbar" in Google reveals that this seems to be a generalized error not exclusive to this package.

Note that this is a recent upgrade from 16.10 to 17.04 and 17.10, so perhaps some things were broken.

I have no idea how to work around this. Please hit me up for any more information or to test possible solutions. Thanks!

[Eneko Castresana (ecv80)]

It's resolved on its own not sure through what update though.

Feel free to close it.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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

[Mathieu Tarral (mathieu-tarral)]

Hi,

the upgrade from 19.04 to 19.10 broke this package for me.

I have the same Python traceback.