Not able to take screenshots with KDE Plasma 5.20.80

[Jan Grulich]

Hi,

the file is named "org.freedesktop.impl.portal.desktop.kde.desktop" and
should be most likely located in /usr/share/applications.

Regards,
Jan

út 27. 10. 2020 v 22:10 odesílatel Damir Porobic <damir_porobic at live.com>
napsal:

> Hi Jan,
>
> I have searched for files with that name and found following:
>
> /usr/share/xdg-desktop-portal-kde
> /usr/share/lintian/overrides/xdg-desktop-portal-kde
> /usr/share/doc/xdg-desktop-portal-kde
> /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libexec/xdg-desktop-portal-kde
>
> The first and third are directories, the fourth is a library. I've added
> the string you mentioned to the second file but the behavior seems to be
> the same. Did you mean a different file?
>
> Regards,
> Damir
>
> ------------------------------
> *From:* kde-devel <kde-devel-bounces at kde.org> on behalf of Jan Grulich <
> jgrulich at redhat.com>
> *Sent:* Monday, October 19, 2020 07:34
> *To:* kde-devel at kde.org <kde-devel at kde.org>
> *Subject:* Re: Not able to take screenshots with KDE Plasma 5.20.80
>
> Hi,
>
> can you try to add "X-KDE-DBUS-Restricted-Interfaces=org.kde.kwin.Screenshot"
> into the xdg-desktop-portal-kde desktop file and restart it?
>
> Regards,
> Jan
>
> ne 18. 10. 2020 v 22:50 odesílatel Damir Porobic <damir_porobic at live.com>
> napsal:
>
> Hello,
>
> anyone any feedback on this one? Kind of breaks all non KDE Screenshot
> tools under Wayland.
> Would be nice to know if this is by error or some additional steps are
> required now.
>
> Best regards,
> Damir
>
> ------------------------------
> *From:* Damir Porobic <damir_porobic at live.com>
> *Sent:* Wednesday, October 14, 2020 21:34
> *To:* kde-devel at kde.org <kde-devel at kde.org>
> *Subject:* Re: Not able to take screenshots with KDE Plasma 5.20.80
>
> Seems to be related to this change here https://phabricator.kde.org/D29407
>
> Also, I see the same error when using org.freedesktop.portal.Screenshot
> which requires already confirmation by default so I'm bit confused why
> both, authorization and confirmation? Also, looking quickly through the
> discussion I haven't found any clue how a non KDE application could get
> access to those screenshot interfaces.
>
> Best regards,
> Damir
> ------------------------------
> *From:* kde-devel <kde-devel-bounces at kde.org> on behalf of Damir Porobic <
> damir_porobic at live.com>
> *Sent:* Wednesday, October 14, 2020 21:22
> *To:* kde-devel at kde.org <kde-devel at kde.org>
> *Subject:* Not able to take screenshots with KDE Plasma 5.20.80
>
> Hello,
>
> one of my users informed me that he's not able to take screenshots with
> KDE Plasma Wayland anymore. I've just tested myself, with Plasma 5.19.5
> everything is working, with Plasma 5.20.80, it's not. My application
> supports two ways of taking screenshots under KDE Plasma, one is using
> "org.kde.kwin.Screenshot" like Spectacle and the other is using
> "org.freedesktop.portal.Screenshot". Interesting is that both stopped
> working with 5.20.80 but Spectacle seems to be able to take screenshot
> still. My imageGrabber that uses "org.kde.kwin.Screenshot" is basically a
> copy of Spectacles imageGrabber, so I'm wondering why it works for
> Spectacle and not for my application.
>
> Looking at the dbus-monitor sessions, I've notices an error saying:
> error_name=org.kde.kwin.Screenshot.Error.NoAuthorized reply_serial=32
> string "The process is not authorized to take a screenshot"
>
> That's something new. How can a process be authorized to take screenshots?
>
> Regards,
> Damir
>
>
>
> --
>
> Jan Grulich,
>
> Senior Software Engineer, Desktop Team
>
> Red Hat
>


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Jan Grulich,

Senior Software Engineer, Desktop Team

Red Hat
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