Description of problem: At some point in rawhide, the ability to take a screenshot by pressing the printscreen button went away. This is incredibly useful for many things, including debugging remote problems on users desktops and also gettning screen shots of application states (look ma ... it's broken!). Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): post fc5t1 rawhide How reproducible: 100% Steps to Reproduce: 1. press printscreen button Actual results: no screenshot is produced Expected results: a screenshot should be produced and a dialogue box should pop up asking where to save the screenshot.
does running "gnome-screenshot" from the terminal work?
running gnome-screenshot from the terminal does take a screenshot, but now we have the heisenburg uncertainty principle largely affecting what you are taking a picture of.
Hi, Just trying to diagnose the problem (pressing that key calls gnome-screenshot under the hood). If you map it to a different key: gconftool-2 -s /apps/metacity/global_keybindings/run_command_screenshot --type string "Scroll_Lock" or something, then does it work (by pressing scroll lock)?
If I remap the screenshot tool to another key I am able to take screenshots by pressing the key I have remapped.
Thanks.
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Hi, So this looks like it's an XKB data problem. If you have a look at /usr/share/X11/xkb/pc/pc and add // in front of each of these lines: key <SYRQ> { type= "PC_SYSRQ", symbols[Group1]= [ Print, Sys_Req ] }; then the problem goes away. The problem also goes away if we use xkeyboard-config instead of Xorg xkb data. I think that latter solution may be the better long-term one, but I don't really know. Reassinging to xorg.
Ok, I suspected this problem was a repeat of an older bug reported ages ago, and Ray tracked it down in bugzilla to the problem I was thinking about: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=69743 We should be able to fix this in the next package build. I'll update it once built. Thanks for the report.
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How's that rebuild going?
I've filed an upstream bug for this, and attached a new patch I created based off the old XFree86 4.3.0 one we used to ship, so that this gets fixed upstream for good hopefully this time: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5848 The patch is in xorg-x11-xkbdata-1.0.1-2, which should show up in rawhide tomorrow.