Bug 506303

Summary: With two monitors, the other one disabled, spectacle hangs infinitely when taking a rectangular screenshot
Product: [I don't know] kde Reporter: Olivia Laari <ojsl>
Component: generalAssignee: Unassigned bugs <unassigned-bugs-null>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE    
Severity: normal    
Priority: NOR    
Version First Reported In: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Manjaro   
OS: Linux   
Latest Commit: Version Fixed/Implemented In:
Sentry Crash Report:
Attachments: Video of opening the app through terminal and the app hanging

Description Olivia Laari 2025-06-28 05:39:30 UTC
Created attachment 182750 [details]
Video of opening the app through terminal and the app hanging

SUMMARY
Spectacle hangs when launching/taking a rectangular screenshot.

STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. Open `spectacle` from terminal
2. Nothing happens, no crash, no logs

1. Open spectacle with `spectacle -l` to skip taking a screenshot
2. The GUI launches normally
3. Try to take a rectangular region screenshot
4. GUI vanishes and nothing happens, no logs, no crash, esc doesn't take back to the gui.

OBSERVED RESULT
Pressing PrtScr nothing happens.

EXPECTED RESULT
Pressing PrtScr would normally open the gui and show the captured image on it.

SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Linux/KDE Plasma: Manjaro Linux Wayland KDE Plasma 6.4.1
KDE Plasma Version: 6.4.1
KDE Frameworks Version: 6.15.0
Qt Version: 6.9.1

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
The rectangular region overlay works normally when trying to record a video.
Comment 1 Olivia Laari 2025-06-28 05:44:52 UTC
During writing this bug I had my second screen disabled, now that I enabled it spectacle launches normally again and the rectangular region works again. Was it trying to access the other disabled monitor or something?
Comment 2 Olivia Laari 2025-06-28 11:12:20 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 506054 ***