Bug#671831: gnome-screenshot: main window never appears; can't save/copy screenshots

[Fabien C.]

Hello,

I have almost the same bug here: press the screenshot keyboard button,
screen flashes, shutter noise, but no screenshot is saved.

BUT, I'm using Gnome in _Classic_ mode, NOT Gnome Shell default interface.

If I type "gnome-screenshot" from terminal, my error message is slightly
different:

----------------
** (gnome-screenshot:6160): WARNING **: Unable to use GNOME Shell's
builtin screenshot interface, resorting to fallback X11. Error:
GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name
org.gnome.Shell was not provided by any .service files
----------------

Creating a ~/Pictures folder did not fix it. I searched my whole home
directory for recently modified files, but found no screenshot image.

The only alternative I found is using "gnome-screenshot --interactive"
but it is pretty cumbersome.


EDIT: apparently, using dconf-editor, then going to org > gnome >
gnome-screenshot, then editing the attribute "auto-save-directory" to
"file:///tmp" fixes the problem. Still a bug though as this attribute
was empty by default.


I'm on an up-to-date Wheezy:
 - gnome-screenshot 3.4.1-1
 - gnome-shell 3.4.2-7+deb7u1


Thanks,
Fabien C.


On Mon, 07 May 2012 21:03:56 +0200 Michael Biebl <biebl at debian.org> wrote:
> Unfortunately, this is not a bug, but a "feature", i.e. a change made by
> upstream. gnome-screenshot no longer shows the save dialog, but simply
> saves the screenhot in ~/Pictures.
> 
> Personally, I'm not a fan of this particular upstream change.