SUMMARY This was working and all of a sudden it stopped. When I try to take a screenshot with it, it shows the error "Could not take a screenshot. Please report this bug here: create a spectacle bug". STEPS TO REPRODUCE 1. Open Spectacle 2. Cilck the `Take a New Screenshot` button OBSERVED RESULT Error. "Could not take a screenshot. Please report this bug here: create a spectacle bug". EXPECTED RESULT It should take a screenshot. SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS OS: Debian Bookworm/12 KDE Plasma Version: 5.27.2 KDE Frameworks Version: 5.103.0 Qt Version: 5.15.8 Graphics Platform: Wayland ADDITIONAL INFORMATION This was working for the last few days since I installed Debian. It just stopped working today.
Version 22.12 is no longer supported. Try using 23.04 instead.
(In reply to Noah Davis from comment #1) > Version 22.12 is no longer supported. Try using 23.04 instead. I'm on Debian Bookworm/12 (RC2 install). I didn't do anything special to get Spectacle. There is no update available through apt. > kde-spectacle/testing,now 22.12.3-1 amd64 [installed,automatic] > Screenshot capture utility So I have 3 questions/concerns: 1. This worked when I first installed Debian + KDE. So I'm curious what caused it to break. Is there a place I can look at error logs for Spectacle? 2. This version is what is shipping with Debian Bookworm/12. If it's broken for me, it'll be broken for a lot of folks. 3. Is there a special way I should update to the latest version? I am not convinced it's a version issue. It was working and stopped working all of a sudden. I can't tell if maybe something else I installed broke it.
(In reply to imthenachoman from comment #2) > I'm on Debian Bookworm/12 (RC2 install). I didn't do anything special to get > Spectacle. There is no update available through apt. That's unfortunate. It seems like it's not on Flathub either, but I suppose you could try our Nightly flatpak repo (https://userbase.kde.org/Tutorials/Flatpak, has unreleased versions). The alternative is to compile it from source or use a debian repo or distro with the new version. > So I have 3 questions/concerns: > > 1. This worked when I first installed Debian + KDE. So I'm curious what > caused it to break. Is there a place I can look at error logs for Spectacle? Unless you can get a crash, no. > 2. This version is what is shipping with Debian Bookworm/12. If it's broken > for me, it'll be broken for a lot of folks. We can't do much about Debian's package versions. > 3. Is there a special way I should update to the latest version? > I am not convinced it's a version issue. It was working and stopped working > all of a sudden. I can't tell if maybe something else I installed broke it. We've seen bug reports about this in the past, but unfortunately the bug reports are all useless because they don't have enough info and the reporters don't know enough about what's going on to post useful info. This issue could be caused by a large number of things, some of which may not even technically be Spectacle bugs. It's kind of our fault for telling people to post a bug report in the GUI itself without providing more info to the user in the first place. The new version no longer tells people to post bug reports like that.
Yeah, it doesn't look like a bug so much so as an issue with my setup. I created a test user and spectacle worked fine. I deleted my ` ~/.config/spectaclerc` and rebooted but it still didn't work on my main account. I'm trying to figure out if I can debug what happened...
Running it from terminal and I see this error. Humm > Screenshot request failed: "The process is not authorized to take a screenshot" > qt.qpa.wayland: Wayland does not support QWindow::requestActivate()
We can close this bug. I found the issue: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=446628. Just not sure how/why it happened.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 446628 ***