Bug 381232

Summary:	spectacle graphic window disappears when I take a New Screenshot.
Product:	[Applications] Spectacle	Reporter:	max blair <max.blair>
Component:	General	Assignee:	Boudhayan Gupta <me>
Status:	RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Severity:	normal	CC:	nate
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Other
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed/Implemented In:
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Description max blair 2017-06-15 14:09:09 UTC

I am new to spectacle AND Fedora 25 (long time user of Fedora 21 and ksnapshot).
spectacle graphic window appears as expected.
The spectacle graphic window disappears when I take a New Screenshot.
The process is still running in background.

I was experimenting to look for clues.
I brought up spectacle from the command line (using Konsole) and I get the following error printed out: 

[mblair@localhost 05_Business_Development]$ spectacle&
[1] 14352
[mblair@localhost 05_Business_Development]$ QPainter::begin: Paint device returned engine == 0, type: 2
QPixmap::scaled: Pixmap is a null pixmap
QPixmap::scaled: Pixmap is a null pixmap
qrc:///QuickEditor/EditorRoot.qml:75:5: QML Image: Failed to get image from provider: image://snapshot/rawimage
qrc:///QuickEditor/EditorRoot.qml:75:5: QML Image: Failed to get image from provider: image://snapshot/rawimage

Does this help explain my problem with running spectacle?
Thank you

Comment 1 max blair 2017-06-18 00:52:04 UTC

In case the video driver is an issue here:

      *-display
           description: VGA compatible controller
           product: G98M [Quadro NVS 160M]
           vendor: NVIDIA Corporation
           physical id: 0
           bus info: pci@0000:01:00.0
           version: a1
           width: 64 bits
           clock: 33MHz
           capabilities: pm msi pciexpress vga_controller bus_master cap_list rom
           configuration: driver=nouveau latency=0
           resources: irq:31 memory:f5000000-f5ffffff memory:e0000000-efffffff

Comment 2 Nate Graham 2018-01-29 20:37:22 UTC

What version of Spectacle were you using when this happened? Does it still reproduce?

Comment 3 max blair 2018-01-29 21:08:31 UTC

I learned that desktop environments GNOME and KDE are not mutually compatible when it comes to screenshot software. The KDE Spectacle will not work in classic GNOME – but will in KDE. The equivalent for Spectacle is GNOME Screenshot. So, when I am using GNOME, I am using Screenshot.  And that solves my problem.  But it does have some minor limitations.

Comment 4 Nate Graham 2018-01-29 21:48:53 UTC

OK, thanks!