SUMMARY When selecting "Rectangular Region" and pressing "Take a New Screenshot" via GUI, Spectacle sometimes goes to the background, but it doesn't let me select a region. When pressing the print button on the keyboard, it works always. When adding a delay or selecting the "On Click" option it always works. And it even sometimes works when working with the default options. Btw. Spectacle doesn't crash. It shows up in KSysGuard. STEPS TO REPRODUCE 1. Open Spectacle 2. Select "Rectangular Region" 3. Press "Take a New Screenshot" with the default options OBSERVED RESULT Spectacle hides its window, but doesn't let me select a region EXPECTED RESULT The screens are dimmed, and Spectacle let's me select a rectangular region. SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS Linux/KDE Plasma: KDE Neon 5.19 (available in About System) KDE Plasma Version: 5.19.4 KDE Frameworks Version: 5.72.0 Qt Version: 5.14.2 ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
So... I just googled another thing that bothered me. I recognized,that most of the animations on my system are gone. After googling, what the problem could be, someone suggested checking compositor settings. I check mine, found that Rendering backend was set to OpenGL 2.0 and i changed it to OpenGL 3.1. Because newer versions are always better :D. After changing the rendering backend, the animations are fixed now. I also checked Spectacle and it is working again. Even when returning to OpenGL 2.0 everything seems to be working again. While writing this comment I discovered the following: When suspending the compositor with qdbus org.kde.KWin /Compositor suspend the behavior is as i described in the bug report, when enabling it again the behavior is as normal. So I think something must have been disabling my Compositor.
(In reply to Mike from comment #1) > So... > > I just googled another thing that bothered me. I recognized,that most of the > animations on my system are gone. After googling, what the problem could be, > someone suggested checking compositor settings. I check mine, found that > Rendering backend was set to OpenGL 2.0 and i changed it to OpenGL 3.1. > Because newer versions are always better :D. After changing the rendering > backend, the animations are fixed now. I also checked Spectacle and it is > working again. Even when returning to OpenGL 2.0 everything seems to be > working again. > > While writing this comment I discovered the following: When suspending the > compositor with > qdbus org.kde.KWin /Compositor suspend > > the behavior is as i described in the bug report, when enabling it again the > behavior is as normal. So I think something must have been disabling my > Compositor. I changed the title accordingly (added suspended Compositor)
Same issue until compositor changed. Also doesn't occur after changing compositor to previous setting. Very frustrating bug. Operating System: Kubuntu 20.10 KDE Plasma Version: 5.19.5 KDE Frameworks Version: 5.74.0 Qt Version: 5.14.2 Kernel Version: 5.8.0-29-generic OS Type: 64-bit Processors: 12 × Intel® Xeon® CPU E5-1650 v2 @ 3.50GHz Memory: 31.3 GiB of RAM Graphics Processor: Radeon RX 580 Series
I also am experiencing this. It was very strange as I use this function all the time. This was on a raspberry pi manjaro arm install with compositing turned off (as I always turn it off so 60fps hardware decode video works well). I verified that if I turn the compositor on, it does indeed work correctly, but it honestly feels like a race condition, like with no delay, the window manager changes happen so quickly that something is logically broken. I tried leaving composition ON and setting animation speeds to "instant" and it worked fine with no delay there as well, just with no composition, it fails at zero delay. 1 second makes it work fine with no composition, so that's the workaround for me. Almost entered a duplicate bug but the bugtracker stopped me dead in my tracks ;)
It is my first experience on this issue after doing a system update (upgrade for Tumbleweed). And this issue disappears after toggling on and off the compositor. My system: openSUSE Tumbleweed: 20220523 KDE Plasma: 5.24.5 Qt: 5.15.2 KDE Frameworks: 5.94.0 KDE Applications: 22.04.1 Kernel: 5.17.9-1-default
Is this still a problem with 23.04?
I currently don't use KDE Neon anymore. So I can't say for sure. I'm running Kubuntu and Manjaro on two different machines which both have Spectacle 22.12. But I haven't experienced this problem in a long time.
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This bug has been in NEEDSINFO status with no change for at least 30 days. The bug is now closed as RESOLVED > WORKSFORME due to lack of needed information. For more information about our bug triaging procedures please read the wiki located here: https://community.kde.org/Guidelines_and_HOWTOs/Bug_triaging Thank you for helping us make KDE software even better for everyone!