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gnome-screenshot package

Unable to use GNOME Shell's builtin screenshot interface, resorting to fallback X11.

Bug #929536 reported by Jhosman Lizarazo on 2012-02-09

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #927952: When I press the Print Screen button, it will not appear in "Save Screenshot" window.. Edit Remove

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Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	gnome-screenshot (Ubuntu)	Confirmed	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

I have installed Ubuntu 12.04 Alpha 2

At time to Print to ScreenShot > ** WARNING **: Unable to use GNOME Shell's builtin screenshot interface, resorting to fallback X11. Error: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.Failed: Error: Expected type utf8 for Argument 'filename' but got type 'boolean' (nil)

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: gnome-screenshot 3.3.2-0ubuntu2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-12.21-generic-pae 3.2.2
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-12-generic-pae i686
ApportVersion: 1.91-0ubuntu1
Architecture: i386
Date: Thu Feb 9 08:52:56 2012
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Alpha i386 (20120129)
ProcEnviron:
LANGUAGE=es_CO:es
PATH=(custom, no user)
LANG=es_CO.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: gnome-screenshot
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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Jhosman Lizarazo (jhosman) wrote on 2012-02-09:

#1

Dependencies.txt Edit (2.4 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")

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Tobias Wolf (towolf) wrote on 2012-02-09:

#2

Could you have a look inside your «Pictures» folder? Are there any screenshots?

Paolo Rotolo (paolorotolo) on 2012-02-09

summary:

- ** WARNING **: Unable to use GNOME Shell's builtin screenshot interface,
- resorting to fallback X11. Error:
- GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.Failed: Error: Expected type utf8
- for Argument 'filename' but got type 'boolean' (nil) ** WARNING **:
Unable to use GNOME Shell's builtin screenshot interface, resorting to
- fallback X11. Error: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.Failed:
- Error: Expected type utf8 for Argument 'filename' but got type 'boolean'
- (nil)
+ fallback X11.

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Jhosman Lizarazo (jhosman) wrote on 2012-02-09:

#3

@towolf the screentshots inside in Pictures folder now!
The aplication screen capture not fount in menu applications or synapse or Menu Unity or HUD

the application disappeared!

I have write un a Terminal > gnome-screenshot and print this>

** WARNING **: Unable to use GNOME Shell's builtin screenshot interface, resorting to fallback X11. Error: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.Failed: Error: Expected type utf8 for Argument 'filename' but got type 'boolean' (nil)

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Tobias Wolf (towolf) wrote on 2012-02-09:

#4

Ok, why did you file this bug? Because of the message?

The message is not critical, it’s more informational. In Gnome Shell the screenshots can now be extracted via OpenGL as shaped textures. But under non-gnome-shell it falls back to the old method.

If you were looking for your screenshots and you were waiting for the window → Dupe of #927952

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Tobias Wolf (towolf) wrote on 2012-02-09:

#5

To make that clickable: Bug #927952

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Jhosman Lizarazo (jhosman) wrote on 2012-02-09:

#6

But is that newly installed Ubuntu 4.12 was the "Take Screenshot" and make my catches Pudia manager Gnome updates applied last week and the application no longer appears on any side there are many users who use Ubuntu is the Gnome manager, I want to say that I have removed? if so is there anyway to reinstall it?

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Jhosman Lizarazo (jhosman) wrote on 2012-02-09:

#7

Gnome-screenshot also could be selected for example the waiting time of capture, or the window that I wanted to capture or in specific area that I wish now I can not believe that many of us liked this

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Tobias Wolf (towolf) wrote on 2012-02-09:

#8

Ok, this is a dupe.

Go into terminal and run

gnome-screenshot --interactive

Does this look like what you want?

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote on 2012-04-20:

#9

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

Changed in gnome-screenshot (Ubuntu):
status:	New → Confirmed

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