xfce4-screenshooter not copying to clipboard

[torreydale]

[size=1em]My xfce4-screenshooter is not copying to clipboard.  I've installed CopyQ and Flameshot as workarounds, but if anyone has any suggestions on getting the default screenshooter to work correctly, I'd appreciate it. 


By the way, using Synaptic Package Manager (ie. Install/Remove Software) I've already removed and reinstalled (and completely removed and reinstalled) xfce4-screenshooter with no success.[/size]

[Valtam]

Works here on 7x, just pasted it into Pinta and Gimp to test.

[torreydale]

Still on 6.6.  Just tried GIMP and Pinta.  No dice.  Pinta even gave a popup stating:


! Image cannot be pasted
  The clipboard does not contain an image.




 

[Valtam]

[Valtam]

Any output from the cli? Perhaps submit to XFCE team to look at?

[Şerban S.]

[...] I've already removed and reinstalled (and completely removed and reinstalled) xfce4-screenshooter with no success.[/size]

I use it regularly but never experienced this in 12 years of daily use.
I only had some trouble when i tried to replace it with some other App with more advanced features. Then I discovered that actually it was a setting problem and could be restored.
Nevertheless, I thought maybe running it CLI mode, might reveal some clue. (I usually press PrtScr):

Code:

xfce4-screenshooter
Gtk-Message: 11:13:12.625: Failed to load module "xapp-gtk3-module"

(xfce4-screenshooter:5440): Gtk-WARNING **: 11:13:12.656: Content added to the action area of a dialog using header bars

(xfce4-screenshooter:5440): Gtk-WARNING **: 11:13:12.656: Content added to the action area of a dialog using header bars

(xfce4-screenshooter:5440): Gtk-WARNING **: 11:13:12.656: Content added to the action area of a dialog using header bars

The thing is, that I get this Failed to load module "xapp-gtk3-module" very often when I use GTK Apps based on Qt.
Might be a kind of wrapper that interfaces GTK and Qt that fails to work somewhere.
Strange thing though, the Apps work and except the warnings, nothing else suspicious showed up.
As for the second warning, Content added to the action area of a dialog using header bars it's difficult to figure out anything of it.
The only weird thing is that the code that triggers it, is called three times. Looks to me redundant. Might this be the reason?

I did a little searching and I found the reason for the Failed to load module "xapp-gtk3-module" warning.
You need to install the xapp package:

Code:

sudo apt install xapp

I did this, tested and the problem is solved.
However, the second warning still remains.
This strange behavior, as I see it, has another origin.

Did you do a clean install and still got this result?
What I mean with "clean install" is including the /home partition (if this is the case.)
I use a /home, mostly to avoid the tedious work of reconfiguring the whole system and all the Apps.
So when doing a clean install, instead of going through the whole process of configuring everything, I just restore the /home prior to installation, than map the partition in Partition Manager so I have it mounted after login.
This has a downside, though. If something breaks and remains undetected for some time, the error propagates over the years and at some point, a new full install is required.
Might this be the case? Do you use a /home partition?
Can you afford testing this scenario?
Can anyone in the Community reproduce this glitch?
I'm on LL 6.6 now.
I'll switch to LL 7.0 and test to see if this same thing happens there too.
I'll post an update soon.

UPDATE FOR Linux Lite 7.0

This is the result:

However...

I got some error messages:

Code:

Welcome to Linux Lite 7.0 serban

Thursday 04 July 2024, 12:34:38
Memory Usage: 1329/15900MB (8.36%)
Disk Usage: 14/30GB (49%)
[...]
xfce4-screenshooter

(xfce4-screenshooter:8083): Gtk-CRITICAL **: 12:29:05.182: gtk_icon_info_load_icon: assertion 'icon_info != NULL' failed

(xfce4-screenshooter:8083): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: 12:29:05.183: g_object_unref: assertion 'G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed

(xfce4-screenshooter:8083): Gtk-CRITICAL **: 12:29:30.740: gtk_icon_info_load_icon: assertion 'icon_info != NULL' failed

(xfce4-screenshooter:8083): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: 12:29:30.740: g_object_unref: assertion 'G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed

Maybe, Jerry is right. Maybe this should be brought to the XFCE team.
Although I wasn't able to reproduce the bug, the output instead of being clean, throws "CRITICAL" errors.
If this is some malloc() error, then this might trigger a chain of errors that lead to this result.

[torreydale]

I had the same xapp warning.  After installing xapp, I get the following with the first 3 messages coming before the screenshot and the next 3 after the screenshot.  Still nothing is saved in the clipboard.




 

[trinidad]

Just tested it myself on 6.6, copy to clipboard, paste as new file into gimp. Worked fine with mouse. Are you using keystrokes? Could be a keystroke conflict or unregistered keystroke. All I can think of.

https://docs.xfce.org/apps/xfce4-screenshooter/usage
By the way you can ignore the GTK warnings. Just runtime info.


TC

[torreydale]

[member=2]Jerry[/member],
No, I'm using a mouse.  For your (and others') further awareness, the screenshooter was working for me earlier on Monday and the first half of Tuesday, but it stopped the second half of the day on Tuesday.  I will upgrade to LL 7.x eventually, but I'm helping develop some training content, and it was really noticeable when the screenshooter stopped working for me two days ago.

[stevef]

torreydale

When you use screenshooter to clipboard, it should create a file called Screenshot_yyyy-mm-dd_hh-mm-ss.png created in /tmp/

Is this happening on your system ?