Captures black screen only on Wayland
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GNOME Shell |
Unknown
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Unknown
|
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| Shutter |
New
|
Undecided
|
Unassigned | ||
| Fedora |
New
|
Undecided
|
Unassigned | ||
| shutter (Ubuntu) |
Confirmed
|
Low
|
Unassigned | ||
Bug Description
I am running Ubuntu GNOME 16.10 with GNOME 3.22 and I have found that after switching from Xorg to Wayland from the login screen that when I try to use Shutter to take a screenshot, if I use the "Selection" option for example my screen will just go black and all it will take a screenshot of is that black screen. It may also show the Shutter logo going down the middle of the screen but slightly cut off and on a white background. It may also have columns either side of it with either bits of my screen on them or just solid black.
Anyhow it is very strange and definitely not my screen. It may even not allow me to exit it unless I kill the process in another TTY, it will just not close no matter what else I do. And it will not take the screenshot on these occasions, I will just be stuck there. And although it not doing anything when pressing Enter to get it to take the screenshot has happened on Xorg before, now it is doing it basically every time on Wayland and going completely crazy in the other ways I described. It is now completely unusable.
***Although I only mentioned Shutter in the above original report, as the other programs I have this issue in are also screencasting programs I think that the issue is similar enough for have them all share the same bug report. Please correct me if I am wrong and we should have separate ones for each program.***
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.10
Package: shutter 0.93.1-1ubuntu1
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 4.8.0-30-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.3-0ubuntu8
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: GNOME
Date: Wed Dec 14 17:22:16 2016
InstallationDate: Installed on 2016-05-15 (213 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-GNOME 15.10 "Wily Werewolf" - Release amd64 (20151021)
PackageArchitec
SourcePackage: shutter
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to yakkety on 2016-10-19 (55 days ago)
| Wise Melon (wise-melon-deactivatedaccount) wrote | #1 |
| summary: |
- Shutter captures black screen only on Wayland + Captures black screen only on Wayland |
| description: | updated |
| Jeremy Bícha (jbicha) wrote | #2 |
| Changed in shutter (Ubuntu): | |
| status: | New → Confirmed |
| importance: | Undecided → Low |
| Changed in ubuntu-gnome: | |
| importance: | Undecided → Low |
| status: | New → Confirmed |
| no longer affects: | vokoscreen (Ubuntu) |
| affects: | vokoscreen → vokoscreen (Ubuntu) |
| Changed in vokoscreen (Ubuntu): | |
| status: | New → Invalid |
| Changed in gnome-shell (Ubuntu): | |
| status: | New → Invalid |
| Jeremy Bícha (jbicha) wrote | #3 |
| no longer affects: | ubuntu-gnome |
| no longer affects: | gnome-shell (Ubuntu) |
| no longer affects: | vokoscreen (Ubuntu) |
| Wise Melon (wise-melon-deactivatedaccount) wrote | #4 |
I think screencasting and screenshots are two different problems so I'm closing the vokoscreen tasks for this bug.
My understanding is that GNOME Shell does provide an API for screenshot programs to use. Shutter just needs to explicitly support GNOME Shell on Wayland.