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Jodi42

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From: India

Registered: 2025-06-09

Posts: 93

After update flameshot is now not taking screenshots.

i updated my system yesterday and now I am seeing that through flameshot I am unable to take any screenshots. I do not what went wrong. Is it alright to post about that here. I do need help in this matter.
from cli:

$ sudo flameshot full
[sudo] password for shobhit:
flameshot: warning: No DBus System Notification service found
flameshot: error: Could not locate the `org.freedesktop.portal.Desktop` service
flameshot: warning: No DBus System Notification service found
flameshot: error: Unable to capture screen
flameshot: warning: No DBus System Notification service found
flameshot: info: Screenshot aborted.

$ flameshot full
flameshot: error: Could not locate the `org.freedesktop.portal.Desktop` service
flameshot: error: Unable to capture screen
flameshot: info: Screenshot aborted.

seth

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Registered: 2012-09-03

Posts: 75,933

Re: After update flameshot is now not taking screenshots.

Don't randomly sudo stuff - you'll cause more harm than good this way.
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=313883

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pdorfs

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Registered: Today

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Re: After update flameshot is now not taking screenshots.

Mine doesnt work too,

$ flameshot gui
flameshot: error: Could not locate the `org.freedesktop.portal.Desktop` service
flameshot: error: Unable to capture screen
flameshot: info: Screenshot aborted.

same error as him updated with sudo pacman -Syu today and flameshot doesnt work now.

Last edited by pdorfs (Today 11:09:39)

seth

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Registered: 2012-09-03

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Re: After update flameshot is now not taking screenshots.

Mind clicking the link in #2 ?

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H3g3m0n

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Registered: 2009-02-01

Posts: 21

Re: After update flameshot is now not taking screenshots.

Same issue. Fixing xdg-desktop-portal didn't solve it for me, although it changed to the timeout error from complaining about the portal being missing. I threw hermes agent at it which managed to fix it though:

Root cause: Flameshot v14 detects xdg-desktop-portal on the D-Bus session and tries to use the screenshot portal. But no backend provides screenshot support for Awesome WM on X11 (the GTK portal doesn't include it), so the call hangs for 30 seconds then fails.

Fix: Added useX11LegacyScreenshot=true to ~/.config/flameshot/flameshot.ini. This tells flameshot to bypass the portal and use Qt's native X11 screenshot capture instead.

The config now reads:

[General]
...
useX11LegacyScreenshot=true

Tested — flameshot full captures a 5120×1440 PNG successfully. The gui mode (interactive annotation) should also work now since it uses the same underlying capture path.

Last edited by H3g3m0n (Today 12:01:00)

seth

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Registered: 2012-09-03

Posts: 75,933

Re: After update flameshot is now not taking screenshots.

That should be a different issue though, https://github.com/flameshot-org/flameshot/issues/4639

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