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senkil

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From: Norway

Registered: 2009-01-10

Posts: 21

[SOLVED] gnome-screenshot in gnome3 problem

Hi,

When I try to take a screen shot using printscr, or in the command line using 

gnome-screenshot

I only get a picture of my background.

$ gnome-screenshot 
** (gnome-screenshot:1908): DEBUG: The GetProfileForWindow request failed: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name org.gnome.ColorManager was not provided by any .service files

The same thing happens with gcolor2:  When I try to grab a color from a window it returns the color
from my background instead.

Using gnome shell's screen cast functionality works just fine.

Any ideas to how I can fix this?

Thanks!

Last edited by senkil (2011-08-10 10:26:05)

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wonder

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From: Bucharest, Romania

Registered: 2006-07-05

Posts: 5,941

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Re: [SOLVED] gnome-screenshot in gnome3 problem

install gnome-color-manager. still i don't know why is needing that unless you enabled something or you don't use all packages from repos.

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senkil

Member

From: Norway

Registered: 2009-01-10

Posts: 21

Re: [SOLVED] gnome-screenshot in gnome3 problem

Installing gnome-color-manager got rid of the error message, but it still doesn't work.

It did work at some point. I think it stopped working after I used multiple monitors (used
"gnome-control-center display" to enable only the external monitor, i.e. interal disabled
when external is connected). I'm using a lenovo x1 laptop with the intel sandy bridge driver.

Is there a way to access the monitor settings without "gnome-control-center display"?

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senkil

Member

From: Norway

Registered: 2009-01-10

Posts: 21

Re: [SOLVED] gnome-screenshot in gnome3 problem

Removing

 Option "Shadow" "True" 

from my xorg configuration solved the problem.

I enabled this option earlier to troubleshoot a freezing problem (https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/In … tel_driver).
Updating the wiki to warn others..

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