Spectacle fails to save a screenshot

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Spectacle constantly fails to save a screenshot (on save or export action).
Tried to reinstall spectacle and qt: no effect.

2022-01-12_12-17
2022-01-12_12-16

Details:

$ inxi -SG
System:
  Host: roman-pc Kernel: 5.15.12-1-MANJARO x86_64 bits: 64
    Desktop: KDE Plasma 5.23.4 Distro: Manjaro Linux
Graphics:
  Device-1: Intel CoffeeLake-H GT2 [UHD Graphics 630] driver: i915 v: kernel
  Device-2: NVIDIA GP106M [GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile] driver: nvidia
    v: 495.44
  Device-3: Realtek Integrated Webcam type: USB driver: uvcvideo
  Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.21.1.2 driver: loaded: modesetting,nvidia
    resolution: 1920x1080~60Hz
  OpenGL: renderer: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 with Max-Q Design/PCIe/SSE2
    v: 4.6.0 NVIDIA 495.44

KDE Plasma Version: 5.23.4
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.89.0
Qt Version: 5.15.2
Graphics Platform: X11
Processors: 12 × Intel® Core™ i7-8750H CPU @ 2.20GHz
Memory: 15,5 GiB of RAM

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Hi @RomanPerekhrest,

That looks like a permissions error. Make sure the location you’re trying to save it too is writable by the current user.

Edit:

Edit/confirm by opening spectacle and checking its configuration:

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  1. Click the Configure button.
  2. In the window that pops up, confirm the “Save location” path. Ensure it’s set to somewhere you have write access too.

Hope this helps!

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It fails to save to any location (permissions ok).

5

Launch it from the terminal (spectacle --gui) and check the error messages when you click save

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$ spectacle --gui
qt.qpa.xcb: QXcbConnection: XCB error: 3 (BadWindow), sequence: 1321, resource id: 14911683, major code: 40 (Translate
Coords), minor code: 0
qt.qpa.xcb: QXcbConnection: XCB error: 3 (BadWindow), sequence: 1498, resource id: 14911713, major code: 40 (Translate
Coords), minor code: 0
qt.qpa.xcb: QXcbConnection: XCB error: 3 (BadWindow), sequence: 2585, resource id: 14912083, major code: 40 (Translate
Coords), minor code: 0
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That looks less like a spectacle error and more like a Qt error.

Only thing I can recommend, is reinstallation:

  • Remove the package:
pamac remove spectacle
  • Backup and remove any configuration files:
mv ~/.config/spectaclerc ~/.config/spectaclerc.backup
mv ~/.config/kde.org/spectacle.conf ~/.config/kde.org/spectacle.conf.backup
  • Reinstall the package:
pamac install spectacle

Obviously after this you’d have to make any configuration changes again.

Mine works, just tested it again, so that’s all I can recommend.