Usable screenshot tools

[Michael Butash]

I have wondered a bit at this, one thing that drove me to arch from ubuntu
on this was their moving to wayland, that literally broke everything,
including all DE's except for gnome3, which mostly I hated with passion.  I
really can't find any sign that this is using wayland vs. x though, as
Xorg.log and ps still seem to indicate good old X still doing the trick.

What's a good way to tell if wayland is in use or otherwise funking up the
flow?  I've not worked much with wayland other than to know it was a bane
of evil prior.

-mb


On Mon, Nov 2, 2020 at 7:50 AM Ed via PLUG-discuss <
plug-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org> wrote:

> For the screen shot - log out and log in again, but select the X11 option
> as your DE - my guess (as a long time Fedora user) is that your distro has
> made Wayland the default compositor and this has broken the screen shot
> tools(some Wayland specific ones are developing, but in Gnome AFAIK). When
> you log in there is an option to use different compositors/window drivers
> for your session. Select the X11 option and your familiar tools should work
> again. (not a KDE user, so guessing sorry)
>
> From the OpenBSD perspective, X11's biggest problem is that it runs as a
> privileged user - and it isn't being maintained and other stuff
>
> On Mon, Nov 2, 2020 at 7:38 AM Michael Butash via PLUG-discuss <
> plug-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org> wrote:
>
>> Normally I would agree, but I don't have a lot of issues with xorg
>> itself, at least when KDE or whatever DE behaves, and when I do have
>> issues, most seems based around kwin compositing being shite, or their
>> video setup getting settings wrong and randomly changing them (which I've
>> only used for a year or more now.  I do get some other random odd issues
>> with KDE, like my third display randomly eating windows (hard to describe,
>> but quite annoying), and occasionally creating odd offsets in the display
>> geometry of adjacent windows being off, so I tend to blame KDE alone.  Not
>> used Cinnamon in a bit to see if it's occurring there too now, but it
>> typically it's own wholly different issues.  X itself otherwise seems to
>> work fine.
>>
>> I shouldn't say spectacle doesn't work at all, if I open it, it takes an
>> initial screen shot of all displays, but at 3x displays by 4k, it makes it
>> pretty useless though.  How I use it 99% of the time is using rectangular
>> captures, drawing the area I want on an overlay, and that's what is now
>> suddenly broken.  If I try to select just an area, spectacle crashes hard.
>>
>> I started using shutter last week and was just fine until yesterday, when
>> now it won't let me do a rectangular area capture either now with the same
>> type of crashing.  I get a core dump, but honestly it tells me little of
>> why it's failing.  It's just entirely frustrating as I use this a LOT
>> creating tech docs on things, and I've had to take to dumping the whole
>> screen into gimp, and grabbing the section I want from there.
>>
>> -mb
>>
>>
>> On Sun, Nov 1, 2020 at 8:31 PM Brian Cluff via PLUG-discuss <
>> plug-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org> wrote:
>>
>>> 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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