#671831 gnome-screenshot: main window never appears; can't save/copy screenshots

Package:
gnome-screenshot
Source:
gnome-screenshot
Description:
screenshot application for GNOME
Submitter:
Brian Marshall
Date:
2015-08-17 16:54:24 UTC
Severity:
important
#671831#5
Date:
2012-05-07 09:48:18 UTC
From:
To:
Hi,

gnome-screenshot flashes the screen and makes the shutter noise, but it no
longer opens the "Save Screenshot" window, so I can't use it to actually take
screenshots anymore. This message appears in the terminal:

    ** (gnome-screenshot:7018): WARNING **: Unable to use GNOME Shell's builtin
    screenshot interface, resorting to fallback X11. Error:
    GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.Failed: Error: Expected type utf8
    for Argument 'filename' but got type 'boolean' (nil)

I'm using gnome-shell 3.2.2.1-2 in wheezy. Downgrading gnome-screenshot to
3.2.1-3 fixes the bug.
#671831#10
Date:
2012-05-07 19:03:56 UTC
From:
To:
forwarded 671831 https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=669629
thanks

Unfortunately, this is not a bug, but a "feature", i.e. a change made by
upstream. gnome-screenshot no longer shows the save dialog, but simply
saves the screenhot in ~/Pictures.

Personally, I'm not a fan of this particular upstream change.

Cheers,
Michael
#671831#17
Date:
2012-05-07 21:52:19 UTC
From:
To:
Wow, thanks for pointing that out. I'm not sure how long it would've
taken me to notice the dozen screenshots I unknowingly saved.

I'll leave this to GNOME since it's an intentional upstream change,
then. Thanks for your time.
#671831#24
Date:
2014-10-24 14:26:21 UTC
From:
To:
Hello,

I have almost the same bug here: press the screenshot keyboard button,
screen flashes, shutter noise, but no screenshot is saved.

BUT, I'm using Gnome in _Classic_ mode, NOT Gnome Shell default interface.

If I type "gnome-screenshot" from terminal, my error message is slightly
different:

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Creating a ~/Pictures folder did not fix it. I searched my whole home
directory for recently modified files, but found no screenshot image.

The only alternative I found is using "gnome-screenshot --interactive"
but it is pretty cumbersome.


EDIT: apparently, using dconf-editor, then going to org > gnome >
gnome-screenshot, then editing the attribute "auto-save-directory" to
"file:///tmp" fixes the problem. Still a bug though as this attribute
was empty by default.


I'm on an up-to-date Wheezy:
 - gnome-screenshot 3.4.1-1
 - gnome-shell 3.4.2-7+deb7u1


Thanks,
Fabien C.