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#1 2025-10-03 22:00:20

hron84
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Registered: 2024-11-06
Posts: 4

[SOLVED] Mate-screenshot cannot save picture

Hi!

I use MATE Desktop environement with Xorg server (so, not Wayland) and LightDM. A few days ago MATE Screenshot app started to behave strangely, as it could take the picture (whole screen, area, whatever, all working) but when I select Save it cannot save the file.
The cursor become the loading cursor, the buttons go gray, but the actual file saving does not happen, even for a tiny picture several minutes. I usually kill it.

I checked several things before posting:

- The permission of the folder is correct
- The disk is not full (nor in size, nor in inode capacity)
- It does not matter, which folder I select, saving the picutre seems impossible to the program
- If I start it from terminal, it prints out nothing. No assertion error, no bug, nothing.

Please help me what I should check? This application is somewhat crucial in my work, I cannot do my job without it for long.

Last edited by hron84 (2025-10-06 09:43:14)

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#2 2025-10-03 22:37:30

mokkurkalve
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From: Bergen, Norway
Registered: 2009-08-29
Posts: 68

Re: [SOLVED] Mate-screenshot cannot save picture

You can search the forums for recent spectacles surrounding gdk-pixbuf2 and glycin to get the answer why. The solution I chose was to replace gdk-pixbuf2 with gdk-pixbuf2-noglycin (AUR).


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#3 2025-10-06 09:42:39

hron84
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Registered: 2024-11-06
Posts: 4

Re: [SOLVED] Mate-screenshot cannot save picture

Thank you! This solved the issue, I can work now.

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#4 2025-10-11 06:19:33

gianter
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Registered: 2025-08-23
Posts: 5

Re: [SOLVED] Mate-screenshot cannot save picture

Upgrading gdk-pixbuf2 to version 2.44.2 broke mate-screenshot. Downgrade to 2.44.1 and mate-screenshot will work fine again.

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