Spectacle works perfectly for me. From what you are describing it
sounds like something in Xorg is broken, and I'm betting that you won't
be able to find any screenshot program that won't crash.
You can probably continue to use spectacle if you can find out what in X
is broken.
Brian Cluff
On 11/1/20 7:20 PM, Michael Butash via PLUG-discuss wrote:
> Since my last (arch) system update, I can't seem to find any
> screenshot tools that work anymore in kde. Wondering if anyone has
> any recommendations what works for them lately
>
> I've used spectacle from kde for like a decade now as one of my
> favorite tools, and just as of a few months ago, it's gone to hell for
> me, and just crashes if I try to take a screenshot of a selected
> area. Trying shutter recently from gnome, it sort of works at times,
> other times tends to crash when trying to take a screenshot of a
> selected area as well. I've tried some others I've already forgotten
> the names of a while back, nothing seems to work anymore.
>
> I somewhat blame stupid wayland shenanigans in change, I'm not even
> using wayland, but all the major kde news is about wayland, that seems
> to just be bringing the whole thing down around their ankles.
> Whatever kde is doing lately is just bringing it back 10 years in
> stability.
>
> It's so hard to find good software these days.
>
> -mb
>
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