kazam no longer able to select the primary screen and records black screen
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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kazam (Ubuntu) |
New
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
After upgrading from Ubuntu 20.04.5 to Ubuntu 22.04.1 kazam encountered 3 issues:
1. it is not possible to select region for recording on primary screen. When I click button to choose screen area, only my second monitor is available to choose area from. I not able to extend selection to my primary monitor. The selection on the secondary monitor is working, but it is black (see point 2)
2. screen recording now contains only black (but mouse cursor is visible)
3. when I try to select window, after clicking window (the kazam GUI itself) there are exception in the console and select overlay didn't disappeared
Console output (screen.
```
$ kazam
WARNING Kazam - Failed to correctly detect operating system.
** (kazam:11794): WARNING **: 16:38:26.512: Binding '<Super><Ctrl>R' failed!
** (kazam:11794): WARNING **: 16:38:26.512: Binding '<Super><Ctrl>F' failed!
** (kazam:11794): WARNING **: 16:38:26.512: Binding '<Super><Ctrl>P' failed!
** (kazam:11794): WARNING **: 16:38:26.512: Binding '<Super><Ctrl>W' failed!
** (kazam:11794): WARNING **: 16:38:26.512: Binding '<Super><Ctrl>Q' failed!
/usr/lib/
self.
(kazam:11794): Gtk-WARNING **: 16:38:26.562: Can't set a parent on widget which has a parent
(kazam:11794): Gtk-WARNING **: 16:38:26.571: Can't set a parent on widget which has a parent
(kazam:11794): Wnck-WARNING **: 16:47:00.492: libwnck is designed to work in X11 only, no valid display found
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/lib/
screen.
AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'force_update'
(kazam:11794): Wnck-WARNING **: 16:47:00.599: libwnck is designed to work in X11 only, no valid display found
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/lib/
screen.
AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'force_update'
(kazam:11794): Wnck-WARNING **: 16:47:12.591: libwnck is designed to work in X11 only, no valid display found
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/lib/
screen.
AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'force_update'
(kazam:11794): Wnck-WARNING **: 16:47:12.599: libwnck is designed to work in X11 only, no valid display found
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/lib/
screen.
AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'force_update'
```
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 22.04
Package: kazam 1.4.5-5
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 5.15.0-59-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu82.3
Architecture: amd64
CasperMD5CheckR
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Wed Jan 18 16:42:29 2023
InstallationDate: Installed on 2020-11-24 (785 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 18.04.3 LTS "Bionic Beaver" - Release amd64 (20190805)
PackageArchitec
ProcEnviron:
TERM=xterm-
PATH=(custom, no user)
XDG_RUNTIME_
LANG=ru_RU.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: kazam
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to jammy on 2023-01-18 (0 days ago)