Bug 1399849 - scrot cannot take screenshots anymore in Fedora 25
Summary: scrot cannot take screenshots anymore in Fedora 25
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: scrot
Version: 25
Hardware: x86_64
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Ben Boeckel
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2016-11-29 22:05 UTC by Jordan Sissel
Modified: 2016-12-05 16:41 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2016-12-05 16:41:06 UTC
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Description Jordan Sissel 2016-11-29 22:05:14 UTC 
Description of problem

scrot is no longer capable of taking screenshots in Fedora 25. It captures a black image only.

'scrot -s' is unable to select a portion of the screen to capture.


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How reproducible:

Every time


Steps to Reproduce:
1. run scrot

Actual results:

Screenshot is black.

Expected results:

Screenshot is taken.


Additional info:

I suspect this is due to Wayland.
Comment 1 Ben Boeckel 2016-12-05 16:41:06 UTC 
Yeah, probably a Wayland issue. Upstream is basically dead (last release in 2003, website is non-responsive), so some other tool or fixes to scrot itself will be necessary for Wayland. I'm not going to take over maintenance for this, so closing as WONTFIX.
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