Like many times before, I started making a screenshot with Flameshot. The desktops started bleeding into one another, I couldn’t switch between open windows etc., most things on the screen looked stuck, so I was unable to exit my apps safely.
I looked for solutions. I tried killing processes through htop (I was able to start Konsole), but it didn’t help. Pressed Ctrl + Alt + F7 and then Ctrl + Alt + F1, nothing. Pressed the power button once and got the logout option. I tried logging in and out and, of course, all the apps were closed, as if I rebooted, which I then did, to come here.
Seems like I didn’t lose any progress, but this is worrying, as it could happen at a more inconvenient time. It wasn’t a system crash, but the effect was pretty much the same.
I have had some smaller issues with KDE over the past couple months. The Individual Core Usage widget would start glitching very badly, but that went away. Tiling windows to a half or a quarter of the screen was problematic, and it isn’t like it used to be now. When I tile a window down, the window isn’t sharp anymore.
I make them by pressing PrtScn.
I don’t think I was having the same problem as kobaz, because I pressed Esc as soon as I realized something wasn’t working right, and I saw a notification from Flameshot which read that the screenshot had been aborted. Also, I think I shouldn’t have been able to start the terminal if the screen was frozen by Flameshot.
Yes. I had been using Spectacle for a while, but I wasn’t satisfied with it. I make a lot of screenshots. I found Flameshot a lot more convenient.
Right now I’m trying to configure Spectacle to flow like Flameshot, but I can’t seem to get rid of the window which comes up when I take a screenshot.
I changed the “After taking a screenshot” to “Do not copy anything” and started Spectacle from the Application Launcher. When I select the area I want copied and hit Enter, which is the way I need to use screenshotting programs, the annoying window appears again.
I’ve tried KSnip. I was able to configure it to work pretty much the same as Flameshot. Since KSnip is found in the KDE Store, I assume I can expect it to work without hiccups in KDE Plasma?
EDIT Can’t set PrtScn as the hotkey for KSnip, had to set Ctrl+Print, which is weird.
Are you taking shots of the whole screen or part of it?
I have Print to launch spectacle on the shortcuts page and on the general page I have Use -ls-used capture mode.
In my case where I only using parts of the screen - Print lkaunches cpectacle ready to take the shot - when it is done the wondow stays open because you have saved anything yet - perhaps you wnat t to annota the picture before it goes to disk or inserted in a doc.
Perhaps ksnip is for Plasma what flameshot is for xfce - I feel the plasma apps more intuitive - perhaps that is just me - I never got far with Flameshot - we each have our favorites.
I switched to KSnip. It annoys me that I can’t set PrtScn as the hotkey, but have to use Ctrl+PrtScn. I comfort myself by using Enter as the capture key instead of Ctrl+C (that is what I used in Flameshot).
I hope this will prevent future freezes. That would make sense, since the problem occurred while taking a screenshot. I’ll see what happens.
