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#1 2012-08-02 16:26:23

excitablesnowball
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Registered: 2012-03-02
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Gnome 3 screenshots broken

If I press the print screen in Gnome 3, the screen flashes to white (presumably indicating that it's taking a screenshot), but no screenshot seems to be taken. I checked my ~/Desktop directory, ~/Pictures directory, and clipboard, and it's in none of those.

I also tried from the terminal using the `gnome-screenshot` command, and it behaves the same. There are no error messages in the terminal.

Does anyone know what's wrong and/or how to fix it?

Update: found a solutionhttps://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php … 8#p1140528

Last edited by excitablesnowball (2012-08-02 16:46:56)

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#2 2012-08-02 16:29:46

D4ve
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Re: Gnome 3 screenshots broken

Similar problem here. If i launch gnome-screenshot from the activity-menu, it works, otherwise not.

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#3 2012-08-02 16:35:04

brambi
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Registered: 2012-01-29
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Re: Gnome 3 screenshots broken

I had this problem as well, but when I ran it as sudo, it worked.

So I'm guessing it's saving in a folder that has no permissions for.

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#4 2012-08-02 16:41:59

excitablesnowball
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Re: Gnome 3 screenshots broken

D4ve wrote:

Similar problem here. If i launch gnome-screenshot from the activity-menu, it works, otherwise not.

Same here. The activity menu launches it with `gnome-screenshot --interactive`, which also works fine from the terminal.

brambi wrote:

I had this problem as well, but when I ran it as sudo, it worked.

So I'm guessing it's saving in a folder that has no permissions for.

When you run it with `sudo`, where does it save to? The directory I expect it to save to (~/Pictures) has the correct permissions.

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#5 2012-08-02 16:45:59

excitablesnowball
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Re: Gnome 3 screenshots broken

Figured it out. In `dconf-editor`, change both org.gnome.gnome-screenshot.auto-save-directory and org.gnome.gnome-screenshot.last-save-directory to file:///home/[username]/Pictures

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#6 2012-08-02 17:45:48

D4ve
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Re: Gnome 3 screenshots broken

Cool, works.

Thanks for the solution.

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