When pressing "Print" on Plasma 6 nothing happens. This is really confusing. I always set it manually to "rectangular region" which makes the most sense for me. But when https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=468778 is fixed, it would make more sense to launch the overview by default. Doing nothing is probably a bug using Fedora rawhide Kinoite Plasma 6 preview
Indeed, that is a bug. I cannot reproduce it though. Perhaps its a result of a combination of settings? I would need to know the steps to reproduce this and also the settings for the General page of the settings dialog. The request for PrintScreen to be assigned to rectangle capture instead of launching spectacle according to the General page settings and the bug where pressing PrintScreen does nothing need to be separate reports though. Are "rectangle area" and "overview" the same to you or is "overview" something different?
No with overview I mean one of the too many spectacle "main windows" where you can decide to take a screenshot. I guess this would be better as in the future it may also allow to record. The rectangle selection is just one type of screenshot, so it would be like flameshot but not make much other functionality (screenshot window, all, etc) available. So with "overview" I simply mean launching whats currently done with the desktop entry, this small first window.
I did not change any settings, so for me "Print" is simply not doing anything. So this would be a FR to change to the overview but as there is nothing currently it is a bug ;D
Are you using X11 or Wayland?
He's using Wayland.
sorry I am really bad at reading mails, yes Wayland always.
Please open System Settings > Keyboard > Shortcuts > Spectacle, turn on the "highlight changed settings" feature (it's accessed from the hamburger menu in Plasma 6) and attach a screenshot of what you see there.
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So when not changing anything, the default key assigned action works. But the actual bug is, that if I assign "capture rectangular region" to "Print" (which is by default the "launch spectacle window" command) nothing happens. Exact steps to reproduce: 1. Default settings, "print" opens the spectacle overview thing "Spectacle" 2. I reassign "capture rectangle region" to the "Print" key and get the warning "this is already used, remove the previous usage?" 3. Now "print" doesnt do anything anymore 4. I assign "capture rectangle region" to something else, like "Ctrl+Print", and this works 5. I assign it back to "print" and it also works! Sorry for the bad bug report, I didnt know that this is what I tried. So there seems to be an issue between step 2 and 3, maybe systemsettings not actually removing the conflicting previous assignment (even though graphically it is removed, and the new one is added" Also note that "Spectacle" is by default assigned to "Print", which may cause an issue here. So conflicts may not always cause a problem. For example when assigning "Krunner" to use "Print" which was previously changed with the custom assignment, that works perfectly well. So this only seems to occur when using a shortcut that is the default shortcut of something else. But it also seems to need to be the same application, assigning "Dolphin" to open with "Ctrl+Alt+T" works, even though this is the default assignment for Konsole. So this seems to only happen when assigning a different action of the same application to a default shortcut of the same application, the first time. Damn. Or it may be something spectacle specific, as this is some kind of sub-action of the main spectacle process.
I can reproduce that.
That'll be fixed in Plasma 6.4, and in addition, "Rectangular Region" will be the default capture type when you press "Print Screen" in 6.4, so you'll be able to undo your customizations.