Bug 435556 - Neither spectacle nor any screenshot utility is able to use "rectangular" / partial screen mode.
Summary: Neither spectacle nor any screenshot utility is able to use "rectangular" / p...
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 432260
Alias: None
Product: Spectacle
Classification: Applications
Component: General (show other bugs)
Version: 21.03.80
Platform: Other Linux
: NOR normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Boudhayan Gupta
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Reported: 2021-04-09 19:19 UTC by Ad
Modified: 2021-04-26 17:41 UTC (History)
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Description Ad 2021-04-09 19:19:05 UTC 
I am using openSUSE Tumbleweed snapshot 20210406 on x64. I've tried to launch spectacle 20.12.3-1.2 with various launch parameters:
- QTA_QPA_PLATFORM=wayland spectacle
- QTA_QPA_PLATFORM=xcb spectacle
- GDK_BACKEND=x11 spectacle
- GDK_BACKEND=wayland spectacle
but none allows me to use spectacle's rectangular snapshot feature. All other snaphot features work, however. No matter how I launch it, spectacle with crash upon using the rectangular snapshot with this message:
```
Error calling KWin DBus interface: "org.kde.kwin.Screenshot.Error.ScreenMissing" "Screen not found"
```
Comment 1 Nate Graham 2021-04-09 19:44:56 UTC 
Fixed in Plasma 5.22 already, thankfully.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 432260 ***
Comment 2 Ad 2021-04-26 16:11:22 UTC 
(In reply to Nate Graham from comment #1)
> Fixed in Plasma 5.22 already, thankfully.
> 
> *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 432260 ***

5.22 is a long way down the road as far as I can tell. Also I wanted to emphasis that the only thing that actually works is the convoluted 
```
DISPLAY=0 QT_QPA_PLATFORM=wayland spectacle 
```
Comment 3 Nate Graham 2021-04-26 16:49:04 UTC 
It's going to be released on June 3rd, just 5 weeks away. See https://community.kde.org/Schedules/Plasma_5
Comment 4 Ad 2021-04-26 17:41:07 UTC 
(In reply to Nate Graham from comment #3)
> It's going to be released on June 3rd, just 5 weeks away. See
> https://community.kde.org/Schedules/Plasma_5

Right, that's good, and I rejoice that this trick might help people through 5 full weeks of pain.