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[Rowan Berkeley <rowan.berkeley@xxxxxxxxx>]

I've received no response to this since I filed it three weeks ago. The
fault remains, as I specified it, but I have noticed one curious detail:
wherever the image scratchpad for screenshots may be, it is in fact
large enough to hold not just one but two distinct screenshots before it
is full. So in fact there are two images saved. Once these two images
have been collected, the scratchpad is full and cannot altered for the
remainder of the session. The two saved screenshots alternate apparently
randomly no matter how many attempts are made to capture new
screenshots. There is no way known to me that they can be erased so that
new screenshots may be made and saved, until the entire system is
restarted.

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Title:
  First screenshot saved sticks for duration of session

Status in gnome-screenshot package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  This is new since I upgraded to 14.10, about 60 hours ago. Tested
  through four sessions. Not  affected by any action in destination
  folder (eg, deleting any existing screenshot files there). Not
  affected by whether screenshot application or print screen button is
  used; not affected by whether screenshot is whole screen, desktop or
  selected area. The whole screen of the first attempt of the session is
  saved somewhere (I don't know where), and cannot be overwritten for
  the rest of the session, so new screenshots cannot be made without
  restarting. If I attempt a selected area of a new screen, I get the
  corresponding selected area of the first screen of the session, the
  one which cannot be overwritten. So - the screenshot application is
  working correctly, except that the first screen saved is being
  retained throughout the session and cannot be overwritten. And this is
  completely new since my upgrade to 14.10.

  PS: I have tried the application "Shutter", which performs all
  screenshot functions in a more elaborate way, and I get the same
  result, therefore both the basic "gnome-screenshot" and "Shutter" use
  the same, so to say, image scratchpad to store their screenshots, and
  for both of them, once written to, this image scratchpad cannot be
  cleared for new images for the duration of the session thereafter.

  PPS: I see this is comparable to bug #1103847. I do have fglrx, just
  as in that bug situation. But I am not getting an error report in the
  terminal, as is reported there.

  PPPS: Using Synaptic, I completely removed fglrx (this means in fact
  fglrx-core 2:14.201-0ububtu2, because this is what was installed by
  default; the full version of fglrx is not installed by default, and
  was not present). But problem is persisting. Terminal still does not
  report any error, so symptomatology is still different to that
  reported in bug #1103847.

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