Ubuntu GNOME

'CTRL +SHIFT+ALT+R' for screen recording are not working

Bug #1265127 reported by Phil Wyett on 2013-12-31

This bug affects 1 person

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	Ubuntu GNOME	Fix Released	Medium	Unassigned	Ubuntu GNOME trusty "14.04"
	gnome-settings-daemon (Ubuntu)	Fix Released	Wishlist	Unassigned

Bug Description

'Print Scr' key for screenshots (are Fixed)
'CTRL+SHIFT+ALT+R' for screen recording not working.

ProblemType: BugDistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
Package: gnome-shell 3.10.2.1-0ubuntu1~trusty1 [origin: LP-PPA-gnome3-team-gnome3]
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.12.0-7.15-generic 3.12.4
Uname: Linux 3.12.0-7-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.12.7-0ubuntu3
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: GNOME
Date: Tue Dec 31 05:31:35 2013
DisplayManager: gdm
GsettingsChanges:
b'org.gnome.shell.calendar' b'show-weekdate' b'true'
b'org.gnome.desktop.interface' b'gtk-im-module' b"'gtk-im-context-simple'"
b'org.gnome.desktop.interface' b'clock-show-date' b'true'
InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-12-30 (0 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-GNOME 14.04 "Trusty Tahr" - Alpha amd64 (20131230)SourcePackage: gnome-shell
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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lp:~darkxst/ubuntu/trusty/gnome-settings-daemon/lp1265127

Merged into lp:~ubuntu-desktop/gnome-settings-daemon/ubuntu at revision 452

Martin Pitt: Approve on 2014-02-07

Sebastien Bacher: Needs Information on 2014-01-17

lp:~ubuntu-desktop/gnome-settings-daemon/ubuntu

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Phil Wyett (aura-yoda) wrote on 2013-12-31:

CrashDB.txt Edit (263 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Dependencies.txt Edit (23.9 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcEnviron.txt Edit (106 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
gdmSessionLog.txt Edit (831 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
gnomeSessionLog.txt Edit (111.0 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")

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Tim Lunn (darkxst) wrote on 2013-12-31:

looks like an api change in gnome-settings-daemon:
(gnome-settings-daemon:8037): GLib-GIO-WARNING **: Dropping signal AcceleratorActivated of type (uuu) since the type from the expected interface is (uu)

Changed in ubuntu-gnome:
milestone:	none → trusty
status:	New → Triaged
importance:	Undecided → Medium

Steve O (stratus-ss) on 2013-12-31

Changed in ubuntu-gnome:
assignee:	nobody → Stratus_ss (stratus-ss)

Tim Lunn (darkxst) on 2014-01-05

Changed in ubuntu-gnome:
status:	Triaged → Fix Released

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Phil Wyett (aura-yoda) wrote on 2014-01-08:

'CTRL+SHIFT+ALT+R' is not fixed.

'Print Scr' is fixed and now working fine.

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Tim Lunn (darkxst) wrote on 2014-01-08:

is 'CTRL+SHIFT+ALT+R' working in trusty with gnome-shell 3.8?

Are there any errors in the logs?

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Phil Wyett (aura-yoda) wrote on 2014-01-08:

Yes it works fine with 3.8 on trusty. It's only upgrading to 3.10 things go wron and the logs are not showing much at present.

Tim Lunn (darkxst) on 2014-01-08

summary:	- 'Print Scr' key for screenshots and 'CTRL +SHIFT+ALT+R' for screen - recording are not working + 'CTRL +SHIFT+ALT+R' for screen recording are not working
Changed in ubuntu-gnome:
status:	Fix Released → Triaged
description:	updated

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Tim Lunn (darkxst) wrote on 2014-01-08:

screencast is now triggered by gnome-settings-deamon which will need this patch added backported to 3.8:

https://git.gnome.org/browse/gnome-settings-daemon/commit/?h=gnome-3-10&id=1ae70dc6ff141e248e8198ee1d82e1bec6ed4434

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Tim Lunn (darkxst) wrote on 2014-01-08:

This should be fixed with gnome-settings-daemon gnome-settings-daemon - 3.8.6.1-0ubuntu3~trusty1

Changed in ubuntu-gnome:
assignee:	Steve O (stratus-ss) → nobody
status:	Triaged → Fix Released

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Phil Wyett (aura-yoda) wrote on 2014-01-08:

Update to 3.8.6.1-0ubuntu3~trusty1 fixed the issue.

Not too sure their should be a hard coded 30 second max screencast timeout.

From the diff linked to in #6.

/* Screencasts last for 30 seconds */
#define SCREENCAST_LENGTH 30

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Tim Lunn (darkxst) wrote on 2014-01-08:

yes I saw that, it seems that they can no longer cancel recording with when disk space is running low etc, since its launch by g-s-d..... We could probably increase it a bit, but wouldnt remove it entirely

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Phil Wyett (aura-yoda) wrote on 2014-01-08:

#10

That is quite odd as g-s-d I think also controls low disk space via:

org/gnome/settings-daemon/plugins/housekeeping

and is active to be triggered by default. Am I missing something here?

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Tim Lunn (darkxst) wrote on 2014-01-08:

#11

The housekeeping plugin does not know about the screencast process!

previously the screencast was entirely handled by gnome-shell in which they could abort if disk got low, and perhaps if the session went idle (atleast its looks like that in code, I never really use it). Now the activation is separated, thats not possible.

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Phil Wyett (aura-yoda) wrote on 2014-01-08:

#12

Seems like this hardcoded limit has been a hot topic.

By this section on gnome bugzilla, we may get some configurability in 3.10 for screencast length.

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=708660#c21

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Phil Wyett (aura-yoda) wrote on 2014-01-11:

#13

Re #9 and #12.

Can we up the timeout as I hit this recording a bug today. Just managed to demo the bug in 30 seconds.

Can we up the default or better add the patch:

https://bug708660.bugzilla-attachments.gnome.org/attachment.cgi?id=256110 from the bug in #12.

Sebastien Bacher (seb128) on 2014-01-20

Changed in gnome-settings-daemon (Ubuntu):
importance:	Undecided → Wishlist
status:	New → Triaged

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote on 2014-02-07:

#14

This bug was fixed in the package gnome-settings-daemon - 3.8.6.1-0ubuntu4

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gnome-settings-daemon (3.8.6.1-0ubuntu4) trusty; urgency=medium

  * debian/patches/git_new_screencast_keybinding.patch: git patch to add
    required keybinding for gnome-shell screencasts. This is required by
    gnome-shell 3.10 (LP: #1265127)
-- Tim Lunn <email address hidden> Fri, 07 Feb 2014 11:20:02 +0100