No longer able to move text around in screenshots on laptop running spectacle 6.6.2-1.1. I’m currently on a laptop that’s running spectacle 6.6.1-1.1 and able to move text around.
Both laptops are running the same OS, but this one is a few days behind. Going to update Tumbleweed, but not spectacle and see if it makes a difference.
Operating System: openSUSE Tumbleweed 20260302
KDE Plasma Version: 6.6.1
KDE Frameworks Version: 6.23.0
Qt Version: 6.10.2
Kernel Version: 6.19.5-1-default (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: X11
Processors: 12 × Intel® Core™ i7-9850H CPU @ 2.60GHz
Memory: 128 GiB of RAM (125.1 GiB usable)
Graphics Processor: Intel® UHD Graphics 630
Manufacturer: HP
Product Name: HP ZBook 17 G6
The handle is there, but cannot move it. Just updated Tumbleweed, but not Spectacle and can still move text around. Going to update Spectacle now and see what happens.
yeah, that sounds like a bug in the newest version of spectacle and/or combined with X11 and your GPU.
your cursor should change to the move cursor as soon as you hover anywhere over the move circle… does your cursor change or does it remain a crosshair?
I actually have this same issue, I noticed this a few days ago adding annotations to the text I couldn’t move them. I get the little grab menu to the left of the text area, but it doesn’t move when I click and drag it.
It’s not a tesseract thing, the ui widget just isn’t moving. I did install tesseract to play with the ocr, just not done so yet, but that installed or not isn’t the issue.
Operating System: Arch Linux
KDE Plasma Version: 6.6.1
KDE Frameworks Version: 6.23.0
Qt Version: 6.10.2
Kernel Version: 6.18.13-arch1-1 (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: Wayland
spectacle 1:6.6.1-1
It is a bit funny about the game Tesseract, I thought the same thing when I first had something want tesseract as a dependency and learned it was OCR, most certainly NOT a video game that had me a bit perplexed. Now if you search for it in a package manager you’re met with infinite listings for tesseract lang packs that you’d never know the game existed. Good thing the guys that make the game aren’t looking for sales or marketing, they might be angry at the (re)use of the name.
Same here, after adding a text annotation, the arrow icon (for moving this text annotation) would appear, but clicking on it and drag would not work. My kinfo
Unable to load Tesseract candidate libtesseract.so.5 : Cannot load library libtesseract.so.5: libtesseract.so.5: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
3/15/26 1:55 PM
spectacle
Unable to load Tesseract candidate libtesseract.so.4 : Cannot load library libtesseract.so.4: libtesseract.so.4: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
3/15/26 1:55 PM
spectacle
Unable to load Tesseract candidate libtesseract.so : Cannot load library libtesseract.so: libtesseract.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
3/15/26 1:55 PM
spectacle
Unable to locate a suitable Tesseract shared library
3/15/26 1:55 PM
spectacle
Tesseract runtime library not available
My question is why now. I’ve never installed it before, but will install tesseract-ocr - Open Source OCR Engine now and see if it helps.
