doesn't work with i3
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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gnome-screenshot (Ubuntu) |
Confirmed
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
`gnome-screenshot` doesn't work with i3
$ gnome-screenshot --area --clipboard
** Message: 17:12:05.576: Unable to select area using GNOME Shell's builtin screenshot interface, resorting to fallback X11.
** Message: 17:12:09.870: Unable to use GNOME Shell's builtin screenshot interface, resorting to fallback X11.
Selection works, but buffer is empty. Checking file size:
$ xsel -po > 1 && xsel -so > 2 && xsel -bo > 3 && ls -l 1 2 3
-rw-rw-r-- 1 techtonik techtonik 2 Sep 25 17:14 1
-rw-rw-r-- 1 techtonik techtonik 0 Sep 25 17:14 2
-rw-rw-r-- 1 techtonik techtonik 0 Sep 25 17:14 3
`i3` developers told that it is not a bug in `i3` - https:/
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.04
Package: gnome-screenshot 3.25.0-0ubuntu2
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 4.15.0-35-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelMo
ApportVersion: 2.20.9-0ubuntu7.4
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: i3
Date: Wed Sep 26 09:56:49 2018
SourcePackage: gnome-screenshot
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to bionic on 2018-08-05 (51 days ago)
Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.