Linux mint 22 Cinnamon - kazam does not start!

[pandaroux007]

Hello @henrywoo
Thank you for your work on this very useful software!
I'm running Linux Mint Cinnamon. I used kazam before on version 21, it worked very well. Since then I upgraded to version 22 of mint, and kazam no longer launches when you click on the start menu entry or run the kazam command. In the linux mint software manager it says "kazam 1.4.5-6".
kazam indicates the following return:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/user/.local/bin/kazam", line 149, in <module>
    from kazam.app import KazamApp
  File "/home/user/.local/lib/python3.12/site-packages/kazam/app.py", line 39, in <module>
    from kazam.backend.prefs import *
  File "/home/user/.local/lib/python3.12/site-packages/kazam/backend/prefs.py", line 26, in <module>
    from xdg.BaseDirectory import xdg_config_home
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'xdg.BaseDirectory'

My system configuration:

• Desktop: Cinnamon v: 6.2.9 tk: GTK v: 3.24.41
• Distro: Linux Mint 22 Wilma base: Ubuntu 24.04 noble

I tested the software (v1.4.5 apparently) under Ubuntu 24.04.1 and it launches correctly. ⤵️

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I don't know where the error is coming from because I haven't looked at the code in depth. One point I can note is that there was a GTk3/GTk4 story between Ubuntu and Linux mint when changing version of it (see the "XApp should be independent" section here: https://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=4675). I don't know if this can impact the kazam icons and therefore its start?

Tell me if you're missing any information to fix the bug!

Sincerely,
Pandaroux007

(I use Google translate to write in English, sorry for some weird wording! 🥴)