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I can't make a screencast.

The options in my login screen didn't work so I edited

/etc/gdm3/custom.conf

by deleting the # before WaylandEnable=false using terminal, and saved the file.

The error remains, even after restarting my laptop.

When I press Ctrl+Alt+Shift+R to start recording what is on my screen it just open this link and NO recording.

When I use the VLC App to record my screen it gives me this error

Your input can't be opened:
VLC is unable to open the MRL 'screen://'. Check the log for details.

Zanna
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Yara
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  • most screen capture programs do not work on wayland (default for 17.10). At the login screen select Ubuntu on Xorg session. – ravery Dec 17 '17 at 19:05
  • I can't find At the login screen select Ubuntu on Xorg session – Yara Dec 17 '17 at 19:11
  • on my Login Screen i can't open the selection menu only keyboard work so Is there other way to fix that – Yara Dec 17 '17 at 19:35
  • see this post to disable wayland https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2367290&p=13670488&viewfull=1#post13670488 – doug Dec 17 '17 at 20:37
  • I edit the file as the link say But and restart Ubuntu But the error still – Yara Dec 17 '17 at 21:22
  • Looks like it should be repoened... the duplicate says "switch to Xorg" but that doesn't work, making it a pretty different Q – Xen2050 Dec 18 '17 at 00:52
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    @Yara Are you sure you're in an Xorg session? What's the output of echo $XDG_SESSION_TYPE? – pomsky Dec 18 '17 at 06:48
  • @pomsky i type echo $XDG_SESSION_TYPE in terminal and it say x11 – Yara Dec 18 '17 at 18:20

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It is most likely the full VLC complement needs installing as explained by
Unable to capture screen with VLC on Ubuntu+KDE 17.10
via the command
sudo apt install vlc-plugin-access-extra.

amos anon
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