Bug 16556

Summary: Unable to select a window to record with recordMyDesktop (Qt andGTK)
Product: Mageia Reporter: Augier <christophe>
Component: RPM PackagesAssignee: Samuel Verschelde <stormi-mageia>
Status: NEW --- QA Contact:
Severity: normal    
Priority: Normal    
Version: Cauldron   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: x86_64   
OS: Linux   
Whiteboard: MGA5TOO
Source RPM: CVE:
Status comment:
Attachments: The guilty button is the highlighted one

Description Augier 2015-08-08 14:22:38 CEST
Created attachment 6917 [details]
The guilty button is the highlighted one

Clicking on "Sect a window" on qt-recordMyDesktp raises Python error:

```
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/recordMyDesktop/rmdSimple.py", line 223, in __select_window__
    (stdin,stdout,stderr)=os.popen3(xwininfo_com,'t')
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/os.py", line 693, in popen3
    stderr=PIPE, close_fds=True)
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/subprocess.py", line 710, in __init__
    errread, errwrite)
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/subprocess.py", line 1335, in _execute_child
    raise child_exception
OSError: [Errno 2] Aucun fichier ou dossier de ce type*
```



* Translation: No file of this type found.
Samuel Verschelde 2016-09-15 20:24:21 CEST

Assignee: bugsquad => stormi

Comment 1 Samuel Verschelde 2016-09-15 21:49:50 CEST
recordmydesktop and its GUIs seems to be unmaintained upstream. I suggest to use simplescreenrecorder instead. Unless I find relevant patches in other distributions, I think I'll simply drop this package for Mageia 6.
Samuel Verschelde 2016-09-15 21:50:04 CEST

Version: 5 => Cauldron
Whiteboard: (none) => MGA5TOO