Flameshot: Clicking the taskbar button shows menu instead of taking screenshot

Created on 5 Jul 2020 · 14Comments · Source: flameshot-org/flameshot

Version 0.5.1-1
I am using Xubuntu 18.04 and when I click the taskbar button to take a screenshot, I get a menu instead.
Thanks

Peek 2020-07-05 13-45

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tawmoto

All 14 comments

This is resolved in a newer release of flameshot. I don't think the fix is backported to Xubuntu 18.04, but if you build flameshot from source it will work fine (I tested with ubuntu package manager to confirm your issues, then built from source and it works fine)

Peek 2020-07-07 14-37

borgmanJeremy on 7 Jul 2020

This is resolved in a newer release of flameshot. I don't think the fix is backported to Xubuntu 18.04, but if you build flameshot from source it will work fine (I tested with ubuntu package manager to confirm your issues, then built from source and it works fine)

thank you very much, i will try it

tawmoto on 7 Jul 2020

@tawmoto please report back if the issue still persists after building from source, and if it is fixed, please close this issue.

mmahmoudian on 5 Sep 2020

@tawmoto There is a new stable version out. Would you please confirm if the issue persists in the new version as well?

mmahmoudian on 20 Sep 2020

@tawmoto There is a new stable version out. Would you please confirm if the issue persists in the new version as well?

Great, is there a snap or .deb somewhere or should I compile from sources? Thanks

tawmoto on 20 Sep 2020

@tawmoto There are 26 assets in that release including :

mmahmoudian on 20 Sep 2020

@tawmoto There are 26 assets in that release including :

flameshot_0.8.0-1_amd64.deb

flameshot_ubuntu_0.8.0-1_amd64.deb

Flameshot-0.8.0-x86_64.AppImage

flameshot_v0.8.0.rc1+git14.017578e_amd64.snap

org.flameshot.flameshot_0.8.0_x86_64.flatpak

Thanks, sorry I did not check myself, I am in vacation with poor internet.

tawmoto on 20 Sep 2020

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Unfortunately I cannot install the .deb because unmet dependencies (I have the latest updates on Ubuntu 18.04)

flameshot depends on libqt5widgets5 (>= 5.11.0~rc1); however:
  Version of libqt5widgets5:amd64 on system is 5.9.5+dfsg-0ubuntu2.5.

Also I get error on snap packages, maybe I am doing smth wrong?

sudo snap install "flameshot_v0.8.0.rc1+git14.017578e_amd64.snap"
error: cannot find signatures with metadata for snap
       "flameshot_v0.8.0.rc1+git14.017578e_amd64.snap"

Thanks

tawmoto on 21 Sep 2020

@tawmoto The new flameshot is not in snap store yet (try snap search flameshot and you'll see) and that's why the snap instal fails.
About the .deb issue, perhaps @ZetaoYang can comment here as he knows the situation better.

But for now, you can always use the AppImage as it is distro agnostic:

Naviaget to the folder you would like to store the software (the following is my setup

mkdir -p ~/Applications/Flameshot
cd ~/Applications/Flameshot

Download the latest AppImage
2.1. Get it from Release page:
https://github.com/flameshot-org/flameshot/releases/download/v0.8.0/Flameshot-0.8.0-x86_64.AppImage
OR
2.2. use the following to automatically download the latest.
```sh
curl -O -J -L $(curl -s https://api.github.com/repos/flameshot-org/flameshot/releases/latest \
| grep -Po 'https://github.com/flameshot-org/flameshot/releases/download/[^}]*.AppImage' \
| uniq)


3. Delete older versions of Flameshot AppImage

4. Set it to executable:
```sh
chmod +x Flameshot-*-x86_64.AppImage

Run the software:

./Flameshot-*-x86_64.AppImage

mmahmoudian on 21 Sep 2020

@ZetaoYang It is obvious that the ubuntu .deb package provided in the release page was not built against Qt5 5.9 as provided by Ubuntu 18.04 so it cannot be installed on Ubuntu 18.04 since it requires a higher Qt5 version. I consider it a bug and will open another issue for it.