Bug 440043 - KDE-Spectacle fails to take a screenshot.
Summary: KDE-Spectacle fails to take a screenshot.
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Spectacle
Classification: Applications
Component: General (show other bugs)
Version: 21.04.0
Platform: Ubuntu Linux
: NOR crash
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Boudhayan Gupta
URL:
Keywords:
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
Reported: 2021-07-19 15:52 UTC by Walt Rogal
Modified: 2021-08-04 20:02 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Description Walt Rogal 2021-07-19 15:52:20 UTC 
SUMMARY
Progran is KDE-Spectacle.  This is supposed to be a screenshot program.

Just click on the ICON and this message appears.  "Could not take a screenshot. Please report this bug here: create a spectacle bug."    

STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. Click on Icon for Spectacle
2. 
3. 

OBSERVED RESULT
Error message.  Cancel the error message, the progran attempts to take a screenshot, qickly flashes a black box, and the error message reappears.

EXPECTED RESULT
That this program will take a screenshot.

SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Windows: 
macOS: 
Linux/KDE Plasma: 
(available in About System)
KDE Plasma Version: 
KDE Frameworks Version: 
Qt Version: 

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Comment 1 Nate Graham 2021-08-04 18:32:46 UTC 
Is this on Wayland?
Comment 2 Walt Rogal 2021-08-04 19:33:01 UTC 
Created attachment 140521 [details]
attachment-20911-0.html

 I am running Wayland on UBUNTU 21.04.
    On Wednesday, August 4, 2021, 02:32:48 PM EDT, Nate Graham <bugzilla_noreply@kde.org> wrote:  
 
 https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=440043

Nate Graham <nate@kde.org> changed:

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--- Comment #1 from Nate Graham <nate@kde.org> ---
Is this on Wayland?
Comment 3 Nate Graham 2021-08-04 20:02:18 UTC 
Thankfully this has already been fixed in Plasma 5.22.