Ubuntu 25.10 beta:
I need gnome-screenshot because it has a time delay. But, for all “capture area” choices, it produces an error. Is gnome-screenshot not usable in Wayland?
gnome-screenshot is deprecated upstream, so not a bug, nor will it be worked on.
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/-/merge_requests/3760#note_2478308
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Well, that’s unwelcome news. A delay timer is needed in screenshot, and the default screenshot tool still does not have that.
I’m wondering then, why is gnome-screenshot still installable from the repository?
Well, A delay timer is needed in screenshot, and the default screenshot tool still does not have that.
I think it would be good to open a bug about it, against which package?
The existing bug for this at Gnome: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/-/issues/6674
Possibly relevant, as many don’t realize it…
When you take a screenshot as of now, your screen is actually captured the moment you enter the screenshot UI, not when you press the capture button.
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Because it’s still in Debian. We don’t typically remove things unless they fail to build. Notice I said typically as there are exceptions.
You could use scrot and xclip to take screenshots, this will always work:
sh -c 'scrot -o /tmp/clip_$(id -u) -e 'xclip -selection clipboard -t image/png < $f''
I’ve assigned this command to my “PrtScr” hotkey for daily use.
scrot has delay as parameter, see “man scrot” from terminal.
OK, the failure of gnome screenshot described in post #1 was in a qemu/kvm virtual machine. I am thinking It might work normally in a standard, non-virtual install. However, I don’t intend to do a non-virtual install until 26.04 LTS.
What makes me think this is that I find in Ubuntu 25.04, regular install, gnome-screenshot works normally in both Xorg AND Wayland sessions.
I remember using scrot in the distant past. I will look into it since it has a time delay.
Screengrab is another you can try,it has a delay timer.
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Just to clarify: the command I posted places the screenshot on the clipboard.
If you don’t need that, the xclip command is unnecessary.