Flameshot Tumbleweed wayland

[hornetster]

Flameshot Version

Flameshot V 13.1.0-1.1

Installation Type

Linux, MacOS, or Windows Package manager (apt, pacman, eopkg, choco, brew, ...)

Operating System type and version

Opensuse Tumbleweed 20260224 / KDE 6.6.0 Wayland

Description

Installed from package manager, and when try to run from terminal "flameshot", get message:

"No Flameshot translation found for C"
"No Qt translation found for C"

env | grep LANG
LANGUAGE=C
LANG=en_US.UTF-8

if I run "flameshot gui" get double the error ie

"No Flameshot translation found for C"
"No Qt translation found for C"
"No Flameshot translation found for C"
"No Qt translation found for C"

then eventually, will get:

flameshot: error: Unable to capture screen
flameshot: error: Unable to capture screen
QLayout: Attempting to add QLayout "" to SidePanelWidget "", which already has a layout
flameshot: info: Screenshot aborted.
languages changes from QList("C", "en_US", "en_US") to QList("C", "en_US", "en_US")
languages changes from QList("C", "en_US", "en_US") to QList("C", "en_US", "en_US")
QThreadStorage: entry 8 destroyed before end of thread 0x564f99e7d320
QThreadStorage: entry 7 destroyed before end of thread 0x564f99e7d320
QThreadStorage: entry 2 destroyed before end of thread 0x564f99e7d320
QThreadStorage: entry 1 destroyed before end of thread 0x564f99e7d320
malloc_consolidate(): unaligned fastbin chunk detected
Aborted                    (core dumped) flameshot gui

Steps to reproduce

1. run 'flameshot gui'
2. No response - error messages.

Screenshots or screen recordings

No response

System Information

Opensuse Tumbleweed 20260224 / KDE 6.6.0 Wayland

[borgmanJeremy]

I've never seen LANGUAGE=C before, why is that set and what does it mean? If you remove that and then restart flameshot is there a difference in the behavior?

[hornetster]

Have not been able to get back to this until now...
Not sure where the LANGUAGE=C came from, but went into plasma>setup>languages, and C and American English were both installed, so set American English, instead.
Believe that the "C" may have been due to me changing some of the details of the American English config??
The issue I am now getting is:

john@boss:~> flameshot gui
flameshot: error: Unable to capture screen
flameshot: error: Unable to capture screen
QLayout: Attempting to add QLayout "" to SidePanelWidget "", which already has a layout
flameshot: info: Screenshot aborted.
languages changes from QList("en_US", "en_US") to QList("en_US", "en_US")
languages changes from QList("en_US", "en_US") to QList("en_US", "en_US")
QThreadStorage: entry 8 destroyed before end of thread 0x55acf4c96320
QThreadStorage: entry 7 destroyed before end of thread 0x55acf4c96320
QThreadStorage: entry 2 destroyed before end of thread 0x55acf4c96320
QThreadStorage: entry 1 destroyed before end of thread 0x55acf4c96320
malloc_consolidate(): unaligned fastbin chunk detected
Aborted                    (core dumped) flameshot gui
john@boss:~> 

After entering "flameshot gui", there is a delay of 30-60 seconds, before the rest of the response.

Thanks, John.

[borgmanJeremy]

I suspect the permissions are set wrong so the portal is rejecting the screenshot. You can try these commands: #4549 (comment)

You may also want to try a flatpak from our CI as many fixes havent made it into a published release yet.

[hornetster]

Have tried uninstalling/reinstalling several times. Deleted .config/flameshot.
Reinstalled using Suse Discover - no change
Removed and reinstalled using info here: https://flameshot.org/docs/installation/installation-linux/ - Get no response after:
john@boss:~/.config> flatpak run org.flameshot.Flameshot

Sorry, what is CI? Will try from there...

[hornetster]

Tried the above (except CI?)
Still getting:

john@boss:~> flameshot gui
flameshot: error: Unable to capture screen
flameshot: error: Unable to capture screen
QLayout: Attempting to add QLayout "" to SidePanelWidget "", which already has a layout
flameshot: info: Screenshot aborted.
languages changes from QList("en_US", "en_US") to QList("en_US", "en_US")
languages changes from QList("en_US", "en_US") to QList("en_US", "en_US")
QThreadStorage: entry 8 destroyed before end of thread 0x555d2d1c3320
QThreadStorage: entry 7 destroyed before end of thread 0x555d2d1c3320
QThreadStorage: entry 2 destroyed before end of thread 0x555d2d1c3320
QThreadStorage: entry 1 destroyed before end of thread 0x555d2d1c3320
malloc_consolidate(): unaligned fastbin chunk detected
Aborted                    (core dumped) flameshot gui

but I DO get an icon in the panel, before it coredumps.
Remembering that this is Tumbleweed, not Ubuntu...?

[hornetster]

Ok, have tried again...
If I:
sudo flatpak install flathub org.flameshot.Flameshot

and then:
flatpak run org.flameshot.Flameshot
.... nothing....
but if I:
flatpak run org.flameshot.Flameshot gui
I get:

john@boss:~> flatpak run org.flameshot.Flameshot gui
QLayout: Attempting to add QLayout "" to SidePanelWidget "", which already has a layout
QPainter::begin: Paint device returned engine == 0, type: 2
QPainter::setRenderHint: Painter must be active to set rendering hints
QPainter::setCompositionMode: Painter not active
QPainter::translate: Painter not active
QPainter::setPen: Painter not active
QPainter::setBrush: Painter not active
QPainter::drawEllipse: Painter not active
QPainter::setBrush: Painter not active
QPainter::drawEllipse: Painter not active
kf.solid.backends.udisks2: Failed to fetch all devices "org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.Disconnected" "Not connected to D-Bus server"
kf.solid.backends.udisks2: Failed to fetch all devices "org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.Disconnected" "Not connected to D-Bus server"
kf.solid.backends.udisks2: Failed to fetch all devices "org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.Disconnected" "Not connected to D-Bus server"
kf.solid.backends.udisks2: Failed to fetch all devices "org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.Disconnected" "Not connected to D-Bus server"
kf.kio.filewidgets.kfilefiltercombo: KFileFilterCombo::setCurrentFilter: Could not find file filter KFileFilter(MIME patterns: QList("image/png") File patterns: QList() label: "PNG image")
kf.kio.filewidgets.kfilefiltercombo: KFileFilterCombo::setCurrentFilter: Could not find file filter KFileFilter(MIME patterns: QList() File patterns: QList("*.png") label: "PNG image")
flameshot: info: Capture saved as /home/john/Pictures/Test.png
QThreadStorage: entry 13 destroyed before end of thread 0x55d4d0e5c1c0
QThreadStorage: entry 12 destroyed before end of thread 0x55d4d0e5c1c0
QThreadStorage: entry 11 destroyed before end of thread 0x55d4d0e5c1c0
QThreadStorage: entry 10 destroyed before end of thread 0x55d4d0e5c1c0
QThreadStorage: entry 8 destroyed before end of thread 0x55d4d0e5c1c0
QThreadStorage: entry 7 destroyed before end of thread 0x55d4d0e5c1c0
QThreadStorage: entry 5 destroyed before end of thread 0x55d4d0e5c1c0
QThreadStorage: entry 4 destroyed before end of thread 0x55d4d0e5c1c0
QThreadStorage: entry 2 destroyed before end of thread 0x55d4d0e5c1c0
QThreadStorage: entry 1 destroyed before end of thread 0x55d4d0e5c1c0

which allows me to save 1 screenshot, but obviously it then cr#ps itself....
And, no, there is nothing in the panel to run anything/show it is running, etc...

The thing that confuses me, is that after I initially started using Wayland, all worked perfectly, up until I did a full reintall of Tumbleweed, and since then... Nothing...
Thanks.

[mmahmoudian]

@hornetster

Sorry, what is CI? Will try from there...

The CI that Jeremy mentioned stands for Continuous Integration which in simple terms is the automatic building system that the project use. This is the easiest way to grab the latest:

1. open the Actions tab from Github and filter based on "master" branch and the status of "success": https://github.com/flameshot-org/flameshot/actions?query=is%3Asuccess+branch%3Amaster

2. from the left menu, select the type of packaging you want. In your case it should be linux

3. click on the first item in the main list. The name of the item shows what has changed in Flameshot before this particular build:

4. select the type of build you are looking for. For example for Flatpak:

5. After the step above, you will see the detail of the this particular build. So navigate to "Artifact Upload" and unfold it
6. The last line of the "Artifact upload" section should have the link to the "artifact". Artifact is the final product of the build that you can download and install. Typically in our project, artifacts are uploaded as zip files, so you should extract them before installing them.

In case of Flatpak, and assuming that you have extracted the ZIP file in your ~/Downloads/ directory, you can easily install it via (mind the version number of Flameshot in the filename that you might need to changed based on what you have downloaded):

flatpak install ~/Downloads/org.flameshot.Flameshot-13.3.0.x86_64.flatpak

[hornetster]

Thanks for the detailed reply.
Still no luck, have followed the process, but still nothing is working. Starting it from the application launcher adds it to the running process momentarily, but then disappears.
Running from the command line (flatpak run org.flameshot.Flameshot gui) brings up a Select screen, and can outline, and copy, but then dies shortly after.

john@boss:~> flatpak run org.flameshot.Flameshot gui
QPainter::begin: Paint device returned engine == 0, type: 2
QPainter::setRenderHint: Painter must be active to set rendering hints
QPainter::setCompositionMode: Painter not active
QPainter::translate: Painter not active
QPainter::setPen: Painter not active
QPainter::setBrush: Painter not active
QPainter::drawEllipse: Painter not active
QPainter::setBrush: Painter not active
QPainter::drawEllipse: Painter not active

The bit that upsets me, is that originally this worked perfectly for me on Wayland (even when it wasn't supposed to..), but I had to do a reinstall for a totally different reason, and has never worked since.
Love the app, but....

[mmahmoudian]

Running from the command line (flatpak run org.flameshot.Flameshot gui) brings up a Select screen, and can outline, and copy, but then dies shortly after.

What do you mean by "but then dies shortly after"? Do you mean that you can successfully copy the screenshot, but the Flameshot itself terminates automatically? If so, what happens if you do flatpak run org.flameshot.Flameshot ( I mean without gui subcommand) to run the Flameshot daemon, and then click on the tray icon to take a screenshot?

[hornetster]

What do you mean by "but then dies shortly after"?
Sorry, didn't include the last line:

john@boss:~/Downloads/FlameShot/flameshot-v13.3.0+git64.bdb1eda4-artifact-flatpak-x86_64> flatpak run org.flameshot.Flameshot gui
QPainter::begin: Paint device returned engine == 0, type: 2
QPainter::setRenderHint: Painter must be active to set rendering hints
QPainter::setCompositionMode: Painter not active
QPainter::translate: Painter not active
QPainter::setPen: Painter not active
QPainter::setBrush: Painter not active
QPainter::drawEllipse: Painter not active
QPainter::setBrush: Painter not active
QPainter::drawEllipse: Painter not active
john@boss:~/Downloads/FlameShot/flameshot-v13.3.0+git64.bdb1eda4-artifact-flatpak-x86_64>

So it goes through the process of asking to select and area, then showing you the piece it copied, asking what to do - if you save, yes, it saves, but copying for example, does not work. Regardless, it then just drops back to the prompt.
If you just run flatpak run org.flameshot.Flameshot it just drops directly back to the prompt.
Never does it show a tray icon. etc
Thanks.

[mmahmoudian]

Allow me a couple of days to setup a VM and try to reproduce it. At this moment I cannot think of why the Flatpak is not working.