Compiz

Screenshot Launch Application fails (patch)

Bug #1363807 reported by Bryan Youse on 2014-09-01

This bug affects 4 people

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	Compiz	Triaged	Medium	Unassigned	Compiz 0.9.12.2

Bug Description

Using Compiz 0.9.11 with Screenshot plugin

Screenshot saves just fine but won't launch the specified application.

Attached patch makes the plugin work like Compiz 0.8, which was the version I was using up until today. i.e., the specified application is run with the new screenshot image as its first argument.

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Bryan Youse (bryouse) wrote on 2014-09-01:

screenshotfix.patch Edit (568 bytes, text/plain)

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Stephen M. Webb (bregma) wrote on 2015-01-12:

The logic in the code does seem wrong. Queuing bug for further investigation.

Changed in compiz:
milestone:	none → 0.9.12.1
importance:	Undecided → Medium
status:	New → Triaged

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alienff (alienff) wrote on 2015-01-12:

Possible workaround is to use incron instead of "Launch Application" feature.
Something like this:

$ cat /etc/incron.d/screenshot
/multimedia/photo/screenshots/ IN_CREATE /opt/bin/send-screenshot-wrapper.sh $@$#

Only problem with this workaround is environment. incron uses its own environment and commands like notify-send and xsel will not work without proper envitonment adjustments.

Stephen M. Webb (bregma) on 2015-02-03