Gnome-screenshot won't make screenshots when a context menu is active

rado84 · 2019-06-10 12:04:04

I've opened a new task for this bug in the bug report section but there's no telling whether or when this will be fixed, so I'm hoping someone here would know of any workaround to use.
The problem is that if you right click any file and then press PrnScrn in order to make a screenshot, no screenshot is made. That happens with all file managers, so I think the problem is in the program itself - gnome-screenshot 3.32.0 from the extra repo.
I've set gnome-screenshot to autosave images without confirmation, so when an image is made, it automatically goes to /home/rado/Images. But when a context menu is active, no image is saved there.

ProgrammAbel · 2019-06-10 12:32:42

I've tried to reproduce what you're saying here but I find it to work perfectly fine.

I presume you're running GNOME, right?

seth · 2019-06-10 13:52:54

Probably x11 ./. wayland issue. At least on X11 the popup menu will very most likely grab the keyboard so it receives all input exclusively (technical reasons, mostly to close the popup) and the shortcut daemon that handles the printscreen button does never receive that event. The common workaround is to setup a screenshot w/ a timer.

ProgrammAbel · 2019-06-10 14:47:21

I'm on Wayland, and no problem here.

rado84 · 2019-06-10 16:43:37

ProgrammAbel wrote:

I've tried to reproduce what you're saying here but I find it to work perfectly fine.
I presume you're running GNOME, right?

Cinnamon 4.0.10.

seth wrote:

The common workaround is to setup a screenshot w/ a timer.

That doesn't work either. I've setup a 2 seconds delay but screenshot still won't be created. And it's probably X11 bc there's an X11 directory in /etc plus I have no idea what Weyland is - other than a character of the movie "Alien vs Predator", owner of a corporation.

Last edited by rado84 (2019-06-10 16:47:43)

seth · 2019-06-10 16:49:26

More importantly also most likely on the nvidia blob, so this is an X11 session, so please see comment #3

Arch Linux

#1 2019-06-10 12:04:04

Gnome-screenshot won't make screenshots when a context menu is active

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