| Summary: | Spectacle starts but its main window doesn't show up after hitting Print shortcut key | ||
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| Product: | [Applications] Spectacle | Reporter: | Frederick Zhang <frederick888> |
| Component: | General | Assignee: | Boudhayan Gupta <me> |
| Status: | RESOLVED NOT A BUG | ||
| Severity: | normal | CC: | kde, meven.car, meven29, nate |
| Priority: | NOR | ||
| Version First Reported In: | 20.08.3 | ||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Platform: | Other | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
| Latest Commit: | Version Fixed/Implemented In: | ||
| Sentry Crash Report: | |||
| Attachments: | org.kde.spectacle.desktop in my home folder | ||
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Description
Frederick Zhang
2020-11-25 11:19:52 UTC
huh Does it work from terminal ? What does return ls -l /usr/share/dbus-1/services/org.kde.Spectacle.service /usr/share/dbus-1/services/org.kde.Spectacle.service , and their content ? > Does it work from terminal? > qdbus org.kde.Spectacle '/' StartAgent As mentioned in issue description. > spectacle Yes. > ls -l /usr/share/dbus-1/services/org.kde.Spectacle.service /usr/share/dbus-1/services/org.kde.Spectacle.service $ ls -l /usr/share/dbus-1/services/org.kde.Spectacle.service /usr/share/dbus-1/services/org.kde.Spectacle.service -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 115 Dec 7 08:51 /usr/share/dbus-1/services/org.kde.Spectacle.service -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 115 Dec 7 08:51 /usr/share/dbus-1/services/org.kde.Spectacle.service $ cat /usr/lib/systemd/user/app-org.kde.spectacle.service [Unit] Description=Spectacle screenshot capture utility [Service] ExecStart=/usr/bin/spectacle --dbus BusName=org.kde.Spectacle $ pkgfile app-org.kde.spectacle.service extra/spectacle $ paru -Ql spectacle | rg app-org spectacle /usr/lib/systemd/user/app-org.kde.spectacle.service $ cat /usr/lib/systemd/user/app-org.kde.spectacle.service [Unit] Description=Spectacle screenshot capture utility [Service] ExecStart=/usr/bin/spectacle --dbus BusName=org.kde.Spectacle It seems you have the "/usr/share/kglobalaccel/org.kde.spectacle.desktop". The mystery is why `qdbus org.kde.Spectacle '/' StartAgent` would fail. Error: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.UnknownMethod No such method 'StartAgent' in any interface at object path '/' (signature '') It seems spectacle daemon, `/usr/bin/spectacle --dbus` is not started correctly, or in a bad state. Have you tried kill the daemon "killall spectacle" and retrying ? Does it change anything ? Does it happen all the time or only after a certain time after being logging-in ? Ah, I noticed that I've got a bunch of .desktop files in my home folder: $ ls -lah ~/.local/share/kglobalaccel total 53K drwxr-xr-x 2 frederick frederick 10 Aug 25 2019 . drwxr-xr-x 88 frederick frederick 94 Dec 14 19:01 .. -rw------- 1 frederick frederick 810 Jul 2 2019 firefox-developer-edition.desktop -rw------- 1 frederick frederick 353 Apr 29 2017 org.kde.dolphin.desktop -rw------- 1 frederick frederick 355 May 21 2018 org.kde.kcalc.desktop -rw------- 1 frederick frederick 473 Apr 29 2017 org.kde.konsole.desktop -rw------- 1 frederick frederick 502 Feb 6 2018 org.kde.ksysguard.desktop -rw------- 1 frederick frederick 1.4K Aug 25 2019 org.kde.spectacle.desktop -rw------- 1 frederick frederick 462 May 18 2018 systemsettings.desktop -rw------- 1 frederick frederick 284 May 21 2018 telegramdesktop.desktop The issue is gone after I removed these files. I don't remember creating them though... I'll upload the org.kde.spectacle.desktop file in case you are interested. Created attachment 134087 [details]
org.kde.spectacle.desktop in my home folder
Given how old org.kde.spectacle.desktop was in ~/.local/share/kglobalaccel the problem was that it was out-of-sync, spectacle dbus launching logic and org.kde.spectacle.desktop changed since. Something we (devs) should be warry of. IIRC files in ~/.local/share/kglobalaccel are used to set custom shortcuts, so FYI you may have lost them. Thanks on you finding the culprit. Glad to have help. |