Gpick is not working in Wayland session

[Julian Alarcon]

Gpick is not working in Ubuntu 17.10 in Wayland Session.

Seems to be a design restriction of Wayland to confine application actions to only their windows.

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_to_debug_Wayland_problems#Screen_capture_is_not_available_with_usual_apps

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 17.10
Package: gpick 0.2.5+git20161221-1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.11.0-10.15-generic 4.11.8
Uname: Linux 4.11.0-10-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.5-0ubuntu5
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: GNOME
Date: Mon Jul 17 10:17:37 2017
InstallationDate: Installed on 2017-07-04 (13 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 17.10 "Artful Aardvark" - Alpha amd64 (20170626)
SourcePackage: gpick
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[corrado venturini (corradoventu)]

this is a major Wayland problem. Also GIMP color picker does not work
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=780375

[Jean-Baptiste Lallement (jibel)]

Thanks for your report.

This is a known issue with wayland documented on https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_to_debug_Wayland_problems#Screen_capture_is_not_available_with_usual_apps