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Bug 687394 - [REGRESSION] gnome-screenshot no longer works in fallback mode, only takes complete black screenshots
[REGRESSION] gnome-screenshot no longer works in fallback mode, only takes co...
Status: RESOLVED NOTGNOME
Product: gnome-screenshot
Classification: Core
Component: general
3.6.x
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: gnome-screenshot-maint
gnome-screenshot-maint
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2012-11-02 02:13 UTC by William Ting
Modified: 2012-11-02 21:23 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
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Description William Ting 2012-11-02 02:13:46 UTC 
gnome-screenshot in GNOME 3.4 worked fine in fallback mode, but no longer works in GNOME 3.6.

All screenshots taken are simply black boxes of the correct dimensions.

$ gnome-screenshot                                                                                                                   
** Message: Unable to use GNOME Shell's builtin screenshot interface, resorting to fallback X11.

(gnome-screenshot:5987): Gtk-WARNING **: Attempting to read the recently used resources file at `/home/ting/.local/share/recently-used.xbel', but the parser failed: Error reading file '/home/ting/.local/share/recently-used.xbel': Is a directory.

(gnome-screenshot:5987): Gtk-WARNING **: Attempting to store changes into `/home/ting/.local/share/recently-used.xbel', but failed: Failed to rename file '/home/ting/.local/share/recently-used.xbel.QOEFNW' to '/home/ting/.local/share/recently-used.xbel': g_rename() failed: Is a directory
Comment 1 Cosimo Cecchi 2012-11-02 21:23:37 UTC 
After talking with Benjamin on IRC today, it turns out this is a Cairo regression, not a gnome-screenshot bug.

Closing as NOTGNOME, this has been fixed in Cairo master today here: http://cgit.freedesktop.org/cairo/commit/?id=724c6dfa9521e887682029add879c2fcdd518b14