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Description of problem: Shutter cannot make screen captures with Gnome/Wayland Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): shutter-0.93.1-1.fc23.noarch libwayland-client-1.9.0-1.fc23.x86_64 libwayland-server-1.9.0-1.fc23.i686 libwayland-client-1.9.0-1.fc23.i686 ibus-wayland-1.5.11-1.fc23.x86_64 xorg-x11-server-Xwayland-1.18.0-2.fc23.x86_64 libwayland-server-1.9.0-1.fc23.x86_64 mesa-libwayland-egl-11.1.0-2.20151218.fc23.x86_64 libwayland-cursor-1.9.0-1.fc23.x86_64 gnome-session-wayland-session-3.18.1.2-2.fc23.x86_64 How reproducible: always Steps to Reproduce: login with Gnome/Wayland. Start Shutter. Select Capture selection. Screen goes black. Capture is just a black rectangle. Actual results: Expected results: Additional info:
Hardware info: http://paste.fedoraproject.org/311841/45307763
By design, Wayland is a lot more secure than X11 and does not allow one application to capture the content of other applications' windows. Both Weston and gnome-shell (Wayland compositors) have screencast and screenshot features built-in.
gnome-screenshot is quite feature poor and not a substitute for shutter.
You can still use shutter. You just have to take a full-window screenshot using Alt-PrtScr, and then edit it with shutter.
Wayland appears to break every screenshot application except gnome-screenshot. The purpose of a "screenshot" is, well, making a snapshot of the (complete) screen. Sometimes you really want the whole display, even several monitors. But even snapshots of selected windows do not work in shutter or gimp. Alt-PrtScr is not capturing the mouse pointer which sometimes is crutial if you would like to demonstrate a specific problem.
Very bad idea to force Wayland without ability control it's security limits... Gnome-shell instruments is very unusable in competitions with shutter :(
Note, gnome-screenshot can optionally capture the pointer. Moving to shutter, it needs to be ported to Wayland and use the same dbus protocols gnome-screenshot uses.
Gimp fails on screen capture. in fact only allows capture their inner window.. and fails (black capture). I use OBS-Studio and Capture windows features to stream. also fails In general, any program that needs screen/window/region capture fails under wayland Switch back to X :-(
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This bug affects fedora 25 as noted from the version change.
Upstream bug: https://bugs.launchpad.net/shutter/+bug/1502263
I agree that gnome-screenshot is quite feature poor in comparison. It is no substitute for shutter. I often need to capture only a section of a screen, not even an entire window but rather a section of it. Why would any user want to have to downgrade to opening multiple apps to do what shutter already does all by itself? Shutter: 1. Use selection tool to capture part of a window. Done! Gnome-screenshot: 1. Capture entire screen 2. Open gimp and select section to export. In my mind this is a regression of features and capabilities.
(In reply to David Dreggors from comment #12) > > Shutter: > 1. Use selection tool to capture part of a window. Done! > Gnome-screenshot: > 1. Capture entire screen > 2. Open gimp and select section to export. I have the option to select a rectangle like with shutter on Fedora 25. Don't ask me which command it is on the shell... I'll just hit the (omg) windows button, type "screenshot" and select the app "Bildschirmfoto" ( german ).
$ gnome-screenshot -i
Actually I am seeing for the first time the gnome shortcuts as well: PrtSc = Capture screen Alt+PrtSc = Capture Active App/Window Shift+PrtSc = Capture Area As mentioned above there are flags on command line as well. Here are a few (not all) for gnome-screenshot: -c, --clipboard Send the grab directly to the clipboard. -w, --window Grab the current active window instead of the entire screen. -a, --area Grab an area of the screen instead of the entire screen. -i, --interactive Interactively set options in a dialog. -f, --file=FILENAME Save screenshot directly to this file. So I will concede that my earlier remark was not accurate. Once again Gnome provides even if we do not know it. :-)
I can confirm this bug with shutter-0.93.1-8.fc26 in FC26. Instead of the (real) screen content shutter will caputer/use a weird bitmap that shows a pattern of shutter icons.
Shutter also allows you to format the file names and path where they are stored and even let's you automatically upload or put in your clipboard as well. I am using gnome-screenshot on Fedora 26 right now. I frequently share files in Skype and gnome-screenshot clutters up my Pictures folder and doesn't copy to clipboard so you have to 1) look for it in that cluttered Pictures folder and 2) drag and drop into Skype. Gnome-screenshot cannot be a substitute for shutter, it's less productive.
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It's still broken in Fedora 26 and Gnome Screenshot is a sorry alternative.
It is still broken in Fedora 27.
It's still broken. If this isn't going to be maintained & updated, it should be removed from the repository.
FWIW, I'll add my +1 on this as well. gnome-screenshot is pretty crude. Before Shutter, I'd tried using Gimp and Libreoffice Draw for editing. These can be made to work, but they're not really meant for this and thus are annoying for this case. Shutter is awesome for screencap editing, and /was/ awesome for captures. Unfortunately, I'm noticing in F27 that it's crashing a lot, usually at startup. It saddens me, frankly, that we have an awesome tool that falters due to neglect, when there really isn't as good an alternative. If there is one and Shutter shall go away, then please let us know what this new alternative is. Existing options don't measure up.
+1 for me Linux 4.14.4-200.fc26.x86_64 Gnome Version 3.24.2 still display strange bitmap with part of Shutter icon for any kind of screenshoot.
+1 shutter-0.93.1-8.fc27.noarch libwayland-server-1.14.0-2.fc27.x86_64 gnome-shell-3.26.2-4.fc27.x86_64 kernel-4.14.14-300.fc27.x86_64 Fedora 27
Shutter still doesn't work on Fedora 27. Regression from Fedora 23. Gnome-screenshot isn't a worthy alternative.
It's quite easy to script gnome-screenshot in Wayland to allow selectable screen grabs with file-renaming and auto-dating. Here's how I did it in Fedora 27: https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/430243/280718 But yes, until I figured this, I was hesitating to upgrade to Wayland too.
While not as full featured as Shutter, this Gnome extension is at least very easy to use repeatedly which is more than the Gnome Screenshot interface can say. https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/1112/screenshot-tool/
I have just found this on fedorarepos: https://github.com/lupoDharkael/flameshot And works on wayland...
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I'd like to suggest that this bug be closed as a WONTFIX and traffic redirected to https://github.com/lupoDharkael/flameshot
Flameshot is not an alternative; you cannot edit existing images with it and arrows and annotations, which you can do with Shutter. Its only useful for screenshots.
(In reply to Hans Deragon from comment #32) > Flameshot is not an alternative; you cannot edit existing images with it and > arrows and annotations, which you can do with Shutter. Its only useful for > screenshots. +1 Flameshot is nearly impossible to get working on fedora 30.
This page is the first result on Google when searching for Shutter Wayland so I thought I'd share my personal advice to anyone who lands here: give up on Shutter and give a try to ksnip. It works well on Fedora 34 which uses Wayland and Gnome 40, and it does pretty much the same thing Shutter used to. https://github.com/ksnip/ksnip