Been having some issues with trying to get a combo headphone/microphone product working on my new homebuilt MSI B550A mobo + Ryzen7 cpu and in trying to get some feedback I went to try to use the screenshot app in TW to take some screenshots with “select an area” . . . when I clicked on the desktop to try to pick up two windows on it . . . the selection tracer slid under the two windows, rather than floating over them . . . . When I selected “grab whole screen” it worked to do that, but when I clicked “save” . . . the spinning beachball of non-function started spinning . . . did not save the image.
Thinking maybe a recent zypper dup might have pulled in some problems I ran a fresh zyppering and tried again . . . . No change.
Essentially it seems like TWs Screenshot app is not fully functioning??? Might check over in Leap 16 in a minute to see if that system’s app is working . . . ???
There is no such thing as a “TW Screenshot app”. Each desktop environment brings its own standard app for screenshots and each app can be installed on each desktop environment. So which app on which desktop environment are you using?
I was hoping I wasn’t the only person running MATE . . . . : - 0
I believe that my post subject line provides the name of the app as “take screenshot”? and then the window changes to “save screenshot” as also mentioned in the subject line?
I bounced over to Leap in the meanwhile . . . working through the problem over there. I will triple check the name of the screenshot app when I get back over to TW . . . but I think the data has been provided . . . in the subject line??
OK, I will now travel through the veil over to TW and check your command. In Leap running XFCE’s “screenshot” app, all is working well. I was able to take this screenshot showing my desktop with my first post with the subject line showing in bold font, which I assume could be seen by other MATE mind-reader types . . . ???
No intention to be picky…but the title and first post is kind of non telling to 90% of helpers (except maybe to the other 10% which might be Mate users). There is no such package as “take screenshot” to find via Myrlyn, YaST Software or zypper. That is why i asked for the app and the DE. A simple search via Myrlyn, YaST Software or zypper could have shown you which of the 12 screenshot apps (that is the amount which i could find via a fast search) you have installed. I think you have mate-screenshot installed.
My test VB, where i tried to replicate your issue, immediately crashes after Mate installation. As i do not want to troubleshoot Mate today any longer, you might have to wait for one of the few Mate users.
OK, well thanks for trying . . . I understood you were telling me that the app was specific to the DE, but didn’t know where to go with that information to try to troubleshoot it. The window when the app is launched has “Take Screenshot” on it . . . But yes in running hcvv’s command I see it is “mate-screenshot” . . . makes total sense, etc.
Is this something to post on the MATE forum or bug tracker?? I think they are a small group that is busy doing MATE stuff . . . . I see in my TW picture folder that I have a screenshot from earlier in the year so it was working then . . . now seems to be in trouble.
Sorry your VB edition of MATE crashed . . . it’s usually pretty stable . . . .
Try different key combinations with the [PrintScreen] key: With [Shift], with [Ctrl], with [Alt]. In many desktops, this starts that desktop’s screenshot applet with different parameters; only the active window, the whole screen, or sometimes with a rubberband to select an area.
If that doesn’t help, use Gimp and then “File” → “Create” → “Screenshot”. Or take a screenshot of the whole screen and then use Gimp to crop the part that you really want.
Also notice that often enough, those simple screenshot applets don’t hang around to ask, but simply write a screenshot somewhere; to the ~/Desktop directory, to your home directory, or to your download directory. Check if you have some new files there.
Thanks for the thought about using Gimp . . . traditionally I don’t do a whole lot of screenshots, so I don’t have a “plan B” worked out for if and when it goes wrong.
Thanks also to you for stopping by, yes, the app is set up to save the image to /Pictures . . . but, in this case, the work wheel is spinning, but nothing is made or saved to there or anywhere.
Got another suggestion to try “Spectacle” which is the default screenshot app for KDE, which I don’t use KDE too much . . . . Ran out of time on it yesterday, might be able to spend some time on it today . . . .
One of those “for want of a nail” things . . . routine procedure . . . failing to perform its duties just when needed, etc.
Issue has been filed on the MATE github site. I would like to see if I can fix the MATE screenshot offering, rather than adding apps for something that isn’t over-used?
I accepted this advice and added it to my TW system . . . needed to have a screenshot ASAP . . . . Seemed to take a massive 11 MB worth of additional data added into my system . . . I prefer a lean and mean OS, no frills, no extras, but doesn’t seem like an immediate fix is coming on the mate-screenshot app . . . . Had to make a snap decision, I pulled the trigger and back in biz with screenshotting . . . xfce4 style.
Sometimes the pragmatic option is the best. Anyway, you could also try running the native MATE Screenhot app from a terminal. For example: mate-screenshot --interactive mate-screenshot --area --file=/tmp/test.png
…and note any errors.
Indeed, necessity is the mother of decision making. In conversation with one of the gents on the MATE github discussion he reported that his MATE screenshot app is working in Debian Sid. I checked mine and it is, using MATE 1.26.2. I then checked the version that TW is using and it appears to be 1.28.2 . . . which is not working. He just posted that he got his DE from “git master” and it is 1.29 . . . which is working.
So it seems like the sweet spot for dysfunction is 1.28 that TW is using . . . . Are “git master” packages available to opensuse users OR something that YaSt could locate . . . ?? Or, using “zypper in mate-destop-1.29” would upgrade the TW MATE version to 1.29???
Thanks for the background, but to make progress we really need concrete information. YaST/zypper don’t provide “git master” builds. You can only install what’s in the repos. Installing a specific version like 1.29 would require building it from source. Let’s hold off on that until we know whether the issue is reproducible with TW’s package, or some other underlying cause within your system.
Please run the commands I gave in my last reply and report back.
