Flameshot: Flameshot does not work on plasma 5.20 with wayland.

[cossonleo]

Flameshot version
0.8.5

Describe the bug
Flameshot does not work on plasma 5.20 with wayland.

System Information
Archlinux/plasma 5.20 wayland

[borgmanJeremy]

Can you please describe in more detail what "does not work" means?

[cossonleo]

Nothing happened whenever click icon or exec flameshot gui. No error and No capture

[borgmanJeremy]

If you start it from the terminal does it print any helpful information?

[cossonleo]

Nothing is printed

[mmahmoudian]

@cossonleo I would be thankful if you fill the bug report for completely provide all requested information. This is vital and help us to reproduce the issue and be able to solve the issue fast.

Now, regarding the matter in hand, please follow these steps:

1. open two terminals size-by-side
2. in the first terminal run flameshot. This will run the Flameshot in the background
3. in the second terminal, run flameshot gui
4. copy the output in the first terminal and paste it in a comment in this Github issue

[cossonleo]

@mmahmoudian

[mmahmoudian]

@borgmanJeremy & @ZetaoYang do you have any idea about this?

[ZetaoYang]

This bug can be circumvented by using the xcb backend instead of the wayland backend.

QT_QPA_PLATFORM=xcb flameshot