kazam fails to start

[pradipcyb]

The full traceback
/usr/bin/kazam:32: PyGIWarning: Gtk was imported without specifying a version first. Use gi.require_version('Gtk', '3.0') before import to ensure that the right version gets loaded. from gi.repository import Gtk Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/kazam", line 146, in <module> from kazam.app import KazamApp File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/kazam/app.py", line 35, in <module> from kazam.backend.prefs import * File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/kazam/backend/prefs.py", line 26, in <module> from xdg.BaseDirectory import xdg_config_home ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'xdg.BaseDirectory'
I tried installing python3-gi and python3-xdg but it didn't go away.

[niknah]

You might have another xdg folder somewhere else.

See where python is getting xdg from and if that folder has BaseDirectory.py

PYTHONVERBOSE=2 python3
import xdg.BaseDirectory

[andras-tim]

I have the same issue on Ubuntu 20.04.

The /usr/local/lib/python3.8/dist-packages/xdg package has overridden the /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/xdg package...

I don't know how could it be (maybe xdg VS pyxdg?), but I renamed it and then things started to work:

sudo mv /usr/local/lib/python3.8/dist-packages/xdg{,.orig}