On 15 November 2014 13:42, Rowan Berkeley <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On 15/11/14 13:38, Colin Law wrote: >> >> On 15 November 2014 12:50, Rowan Berkeley <[email protected]> >> wrote: >>> >>> On 15/11/14 12:42, Colin Law wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>> On 15 November 2014 12:13, Rowan Berkeley <[email protected]> >>>> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> Hi, >>>>> >>>>> I have upgraded to 14:10, and picked up a bug or two along the way. >>>>> This >>>>> one >>>>> is a nuisance, because I use screenshots a lot on my blog. Every time I >>>>> try >>>>> to make a new screenshot, it just creates a new copy of an old one. >>>>> Therefore, it is storing them somewhere in a queue, and when I try to >>>>> make a >>>>> new one, it puts that at the bottom of the queue and offers me a fresh >>>>> edition of the snapshot that is stuck at the top. Or a selection from >>>>> several that are stuck there, but never the new one. The official >>>>> location >>>>> for all screenshots is set by me as the desktop, and I have repeatedly >>>>> deleted everything on there, including hidden files. These things must >>>>> be >>>>> stored somewhere else. So where are they all, so that I can clear them, >>>>> and >>>>> perhaps find some way of preventing them from accumulating like this >>>>> again? >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> When you click on print screen (if that is how you are taking a >>>> snapshot) what does it show for Save in Folder? >>>> >>>> Colin >>>> >>> >>> I haven't been using Print Screen, I have been using the Screenshot >>> application, because I always want to select an area by hand. But it is >>> interesting that the Print Screen command always reverts the destination >>> folder to Pictures, no matter how often I try to change it to Desktop. >>> But >>> this doesn't really solve my problem. I can find the resulting image >>> file, >>> whether it is in Desktop or in Pictures. the trouble is, it is not the >>> present screen, but an old one, stored somewhere and regurgitated >>> repeatedly. So the question must be, where? >> >> >> Just to clarify, are you saying that if you hit printscreen, enter a >> filename, select an appropriate folder, and hit save, that it saves a >> file where requested, with the correct name, but with the wrong >> contents? >> >> Colin >> > yep. old contents.
If you run, in a terminal gnome-screenshot do you see an error something like ** (gnome- screenshot:5026): WARNING **: Unable to use GNOME Shell's builtin screenshot interface, resorting to fallback X11. Error: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name org.gnome.Shell was not provided by any .service files If so then perhaps it is this bug https://bugs.launchpad.net/gnome-screenshot/+bug/1103847 Colin > > > -- > [email protected] > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ -- [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
