Bug 480627

Summary:	Sometimes, Spectacle freezes when supposed to record its own window
Product:	[Applications] Spectacle	Reporter:	Tammes Burghard <kde>
Component:	General	Assignee:	Noah Davis <noahadvs>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	dougshaw77, kde, nate
Priority:	NOR	Keywords:	qt6
Version First Reported In:	24.01.90
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Arch Linux
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed/Implemented In:
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Description Tammes Burghard 2024-01-31 20:38:18 UTC

SUMMARY
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It does not happen every time, but more than half of the time for me. Note that I might confuse some button or tab namings because I am translating them from German.
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STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. Open Spectacle (in the terminal to get output there)
2. Choose the Recording tab and click the "Window"-button
3. Choose the "Spectacle"-window to record by clicking it
4. Click finish recording

OBSERVED RESULT
1. I get the following output in the terminal:

kpipewire_record_logging: VAAPI: Failed to initialize display
kpipewire_record_logging: DRM device not found
kpipewire_record_logging: VAAPI: Failed to initialize display
kpipewire_record_logging: DRM device not found

3. I get the output above again and the second counter hangs at 0
4. Nothing happens, Spectacle is entirely frozen

EXPECTED RESULT
1. No error
3. No error, the second counter starts counting and Spectacle starts recording itself
4. The recording gets finished and saved and Spectacle is overall responsive

SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Operating System: Arch Linux 
KDE Plasma Version: 5.93.0
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.249.0
Qt Version: 6.7.0
Kernel Version: 6.7.2-arch1-1 (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: Wayland
Processors: 4 × Intel® Pentium® CPU 4425Y @ 1.70GHz
Memory: 7.6 GiB of RAM
Graphics Processor: Mesa Intel® UHD Graphics 615
Manufacturer: Microsoft Corporation
Product Name: Surface Go 2
System Version: 1

Comment 1 Doug 2024-02-01 05:45:37 UTC

Spectacle was able to record its own window 4 out of 4 attempts when freshly launched.  After successfully recording itself, it was then 4 for 4 freezing up when trying again to record itself again.  So I tried with recording some other apps and got the same results- always successful recording the first time, froze up trying to record a second window.  I'm not getting the terminal errors that you are.

Comment 2 Nate Graham 2025-10-30 20:18:40 UTC

Thank you for the bug report, and I'm sorry we weren't able to look into it yet. A lot has changed since it was reported; can I ask you to see if this is still an issue with Plasma 6.5 or later? Thanks a lot!

Comment 3 Tammes Burghard 2025-11-01 21:18:30 UTC

I just tried to reproduce it again, but everything seems to work fine. So I guess some changes fixed it and we can close this report. Thanks for reminding me :)