gnome-screenshot Actions don't work in Wayland

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we debugged that a bit with Didier on IRC some weeks ago, gnome-screenshot is calling the gnome-shell dbus api but gnome-shell never writes the screenshot file, seems like having the context menu open makes it fail to take the screenshot or something...

Make sure you don't hold Ctrl key, as it saves screenshot in clipboard.

It's worth repeating: To take a screenshot you don't need to click on anything or to run "Screenshot". Just press your 'PrtScn' key at any time and an image file will appear in your Pictures directory, or home directory.

This likely will not be fixed before Ubuntu 17.10 is released, but once it is fixed, it will make a good Stable Release Update candidate.

I considered disabling the broken Actions from the .desktop as a workaround, but I think that could cause translation problems when the bug is actually fixed.

We decided to go ahead and disable the broken actions for Ubuntu 17.10.

1 of the 3 Actions is Ubuntu-specific and wasn't translated anyway because of an issue we're having with packages using meson.

By dropping the unused actions from the Actions line but otherwise leaving them in the .desktop, this won't hurt translations if we fix the bug properly later. (I did have to log out and log back in for the obsolete Actions to disappear.)

This bug was fixed in the package gnome-screenshot - 3.25.0-0ubuntu2

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gnome-screenshot (3.25.0-0ubuntu2) artful; urgency=medium

  * Modify update_unity_list.patch:
    - Disable the Current Window and Selected Area .desktop Actions
      since they don't work in the default Ubuntu desktop (LP: #1720262)

 -- Jeremy Bicha <email address hidden> Thu, 12 Oct 2017 10:34:07 -0400

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Gérard VAQUANT

2017-10-12 19:16 GMT+02:00 Launchpad Bug Tracker <<email address hidden>
>:

> This bug was fixed in the package gnome-screenshot - 3.25.0-0ubuntu2
>
> ---------------
> gnome-screenshot (3.25.0-0ubuntu2) artful; urgency=medium
>
> * Modify update_unity_list.patch:
> - Disable the Current Window and Selected Area .desktop Actions
> since they don't work in the default Ubuntu desktop (LP: #1720262)
>
> -- Jeremy Bicha <email address hidden> Thu, 12 Oct 2017 10:34:07 -0400
>
> ** Changed in: gnome-screenshot (Ubuntu Artful)
> Status: Fix Committed => Fix Released
>
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> Title:
> gnome-screenshot Actions don't work in default Ubuntu 17.10 session
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They work fine on Unity. it's a wayland problem. But why deny xorg users because of that?

There is no easy way to have those actions filtered out for GNOME/wayland only...

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The above mentioned two buggy features (Take a Screenshot of the Current Window and Take a Screenshot of a Selected Area) are still disabled via the /usr/share/applications/org.gnome.Screenshot.desktop file in Ubuntu 18.04.3 LTS which is a supported version right now.
Actually the commented out actions have a link in comments to this issue which led me here.

I've tried enabling back these actions (then log out, then login). Then the actions appeared on right clicking on the Screenshot icon but these features still doesn't work. I can see on the mouse pointer that something should happen (it changes to loading indicator), but finally nothing will happen, I can't get the screenshot.

Still in Ubuntu 19.10 the two actions (Take a Screenshot of the Current Window and Take a Screenshot of a Selected Area) are still disabled.

In which Ubuntu-Version this will be fixed?

Ubuntu 20.04, I enabled two missing actions to have them in the context menu of the app in dock.

- "Current window" captures only one of my displays irrespective the display I'm clicking the dock on. It captures not the current primary display even.
- "Selected area" doesn't do anything from dock.

When I run the app gui, all the options work as expected, except that "area" option sometimes refuses to save a screen and falls back to the main window (instead of saving file window). I guess some delay is happening there which prevents the window to work properly.

I'd like this bug to be fixed somehow. It worked very nicely in Unity in 16.04.

This bug is already fixed and closed.

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Hi,

Ubuntu Budgie 20.04 here - so no wayland and no gnome-shell.

Desktop Actions are still broken in gnome-screenshot.

If re-enable

Actions=screen-shot;window-shot;area-shot

area-shot has then no effect.

Other two seem ok but I was unable to modify options ( -p -d or else )
as seen in gnome-screenshot --help

Seems like it always want to act as soon as clicked - hence maybe why the area-shot can't work ?

New ( ? ) issue → https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-screenshot/+bug/1916666