Ubuntu
gimp package

gimp screenshots are broken

Bug #1739684 reported by Michael Leibowitz
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This bug affects 3 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
gimp (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Undecided
Unassigned

Bug Description

Upon taking a screenshot in gimp, the resulting image is all black pixels.

To replicate, File->Create->Screenshot. Any combination of options results in black image.

$ cat /etc/os-release
NAME="Ubuntu"
VERSION="17.10 (Artful Aardvark)"
ID=ubuntu
ID_LIKE=debian
PRETTY_NAME="Ubuntu 17.10"
VERSION_ID="17.10"
HOME_URL="https://www.ubuntu.com/"
SUPPORT_URL="https://help.ubuntu.com/"
BUG_REPORT_URL="https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/"
PRIVACY_POLICY_URL="https://www.ubuntu.com/legal/terms-and-policies/privacy-policy"
VERSION_CODENAME=artful
UBUNTU_CODENAME=artful

$ dpkg -l gimp gimp-data gnome-session
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version Architecture Description
+++-==============-============-============-=================================
ii gimp 2.8.20-1 amd64 GNU Image Manipulation Program
ii gimp-data 2.8.20-1 all Data files for GIMP
ii gnome-session 3.26.1-0ubun amd64 GNOME Session Manager - GNOME 3 s

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in gimp (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
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Kentaro Hayashi (kenhys) wrote :

I'm also hit this bug. captured image is black on wayland.

~$ env | grep wayland
WAYLAND_DISPLAY=wayland-0
XDG_SESSION_TYPE=wayland

$ dpkg -l gimp gimp-data
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version Architecture Description
+++-==============-============-============-=================================
ii gimp 2.8.20-1 amd64 GNU Image Manipulation Program
ii gimp-data 2.8.20-1 all Data files for GIMP

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Kentaro Hayashi (kenhys) wrote :
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Kentaro Hayashi (kenhys) wrote :

FYI:

There are related bugs.
It may be fixed in Gimp 2.10.

gimp: screenshot does not work with wayland
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=880186

Bug 757687 - Screenshot functionality broken under Wayland
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=757687

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package gimp - 2.10.0-3

---------------
gimp (2.10.0-3) unstable; urgency=medium

  * Fix dh_python2 override
  * Bump gimp-python's Breaks/Replaces: gimp because of mistake in 2.10.0-2
    (Closes: #897167)
  * Have libgimp-dev depend on libgegl-dev (Closes: #897160)
  * Cherry-pick 0002-gimp.pc-Fix-reference-to-gegl-0.3.patch:
    - Update gimp.pc for gegl soname bump

 -- Jeremy Bicha <email address hidden> Sun, 29 Apr 2018 08:16:57 -0400

Changed in gimp (Ubuntu):
status: Confirmed → Fix Released
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