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[Bug 1739684] Re: gimp screenshots are broken

 

FYI:

There are related bugs.
It may be fixed in Gimp 2.10.

gimp: screenshot does not work with wayland
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=880186

Bug 757687 - Screenshot functionality broken under Wayland
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=757687


** Bug watch added: Debian Bug tracker #880186
   https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=880186

** Bug watch added: GNOME Bug Tracker #757687
   https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=757687

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Title:
  gimp screenshots are broken

Status in gimp package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Upon taking a screenshot in gimp, the resulting image is all black
  pixels.

  To replicate, File->Create->Screenshot.  Any combination of options
  results in black image.

  $ cat /etc/os-release 
  NAME="Ubuntu"
  VERSION="17.10 (Artful Aardvark)"
  ID=ubuntu
  ID_LIKE=debian
  PRETTY_NAME="Ubuntu 17.10"
  VERSION_ID="17.10"
  HOME_URL="https://www.ubuntu.com/";
  SUPPORT_URL="https://help.ubuntu.com/";
  BUG_REPORT_URL="https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/";
  PRIVACY_POLICY_URL="https://www.ubuntu.com/legal/terms-and-policies/privacy-policy";
  VERSION_CODENAME=artful
  UBUNTU_CODENAME=artful

  $ dpkg -l gimp gimp-data gnome-session
  Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
  | Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
  |/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
  ||/ Name           Version      Architecture Description
  +++-==============-============-============-=================================
  ii  gimp           2.8.20-1     amd64        GNU Image Manipulation Program
  ii  gimp-data      2.8.20-1     all          Data files for GIMP
  ii  gnome-session  3.26.1-0ubun amd64        GNOME Session Manager - GNOME 3 s

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