Bug 456465

Summary:	'Launch without taking a screenshot' option from the context menu of Spectacle icon pinned to task manager does not work consistently
Product:	[Applications] Spectacle	Reporter:	Patrick Silva <bugseforuns>
Component:	General	Assignee:	Boudhayan Gupta <me>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	kde, nate
Priority:	NOR
Version:	22.08.1
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Arch Linux
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:	https://invent.kde.org/graphics/spectacle/commit/a7c86fe5474f14764c0998a1c62b30c327603592	Version Fixed In:	22.12
Sentry Crash Report:

Description Patrick Silva 2022-07-07 23:03:48 UTC

STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. use Wayland session - not tested X11 yet
2. open Spectacle by pressing printscreen key
3. right-click on Spectacle icon in the task manager and choose 'Pin to task manager'
4. close Spectacle
5. right-click on Spectacle icon pinned to task manager and choose 'Launch without taking a screenshot' option

OBSERVED RESULT
Inconsistent results.
1. Sometimes Plasma shows the following notification:
"Full screen captured
A screenshot was copied to your clipnoard."

But in fact nothing is copied to clipboard.

2. Sometimes nothing happens

3. Sometimes Spectacle opens without taking a screenshot, as expected.

EXPECTED RESULT
Spectacle always opens without taking a screenshot

SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Operating System: KDE neon Unstable Edition
KDE Plasma Version: 5.25.80
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.96.0
Qt Version: 5.15.5
Graphics Platform: Wayland

Comment 1 Patrick Silva 2022-07-07 23:13:35 UTC

Can reproduce on X11 too.

Comment 2 Nate Graham 2022-07-13 18:23:49 UTC

Can reproduce. When I reproduce the issue, the `spectacle` has launched, but failed to show its main window.

Comment 3 Bug Janitor Service 2022-10-02 13:35:46 UTC

A possibly relevant merge request was started @ https://invent.kde.org/graphics/spectacle/-/merge_requests/152

Comment 4 Bharadwaj Raju 2022-10-03 09:56:09 UTC

Git commit a7c86fe5474f14764c0998a1c62b30c327603592 by Bharadwaj Raju.
Committed on 03/10/2022 at 09:56.
Pushed by bharadwaj-raju into branch 'master'.

Make sure to switch start mode to GUI when initiating GUI

Needed for cases where we're asked to launch the GUI but over DBus, like OpenWithoutScreenshot.

M  +3    -0    src/SpectacleCore.cpp

https://invent.kde.org/graphics/spectacle/commit/a7c86fe5474f14764c0998a1c62b30c327603592