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Asked: 2018-09-28 09:39:09 +0800 CST

simplescreenrecorder: Permission denied

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I'd like to use a location different to my home directory for recording videos using SimpleScreenRecorder. However, when I "Browse..." File -> Save as: I get the following error message: 

Could not read the contents of media
Error opening directory '/media': Permission denied

as soon as I browse into '/media' folder.

I already changed ownership of the folder from root to $USER, still the same. When I try to launch the application from the terminal using sudo or gksudo it fails to launch the application with

sudo

mkdir: cannot create directory '/run/user/0': Permission denied

gksudo

(gksudo:19480): Gtk-WARNING **: Unable to locate theme engine in module_path: "pixmap",
No protocol specified
simplescreenrecorder: cannot connect to X server :0

I am using Ubuntu 16.04.

Everything works fine when I use my $HOME directory. I'd prefer to use the application without root permissions if possible.

For testing only I temporarily set /media permissions to 777 and it still did not work.

Please advice, thank you

permissions sudo chmod chown

1 Answers

  1. You can use the chown command:

    sudo chown username:username -R /media/

    Replace username with your username.

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