Spectacle Error issues, Spectacle not working properly even after re-installing

This is the error I get every single time I either open or press PrntSCRN on my keyboard.

”An error occurred while taking a screenshot.

KWin screenshot request failed:

The process is not authorized to take a screenshot

Potentially relevant information:

- Method: CaptureActiveWindow

- Method specific arguments: QMap((“include-decoration”, QVariant(bool, true))(“include-shadow”, QVariant(bool, true))(“native-resolution”, QVariant(bool, true)))”

I have no idea whats going on.
It also will NOT allow me to take Rectangular Region as well.
I also cannot take a screenshot of my screens. Meaning if I want to share how my desktop looks. I can’t do that.

On windows, I used to use a program called (lightshot),
Which was awesome for me. And I have yet to find a application that does the same,
As I have tried many, but they want you to jump through hoops just to get something done.

I really want to give Spectacle a try, but it’s making that impossible right now.

Thanks for reading.
:slight_smile:

what is the output of kinfo

Operating System: Debian GNU/Linux 13
KDE Plasma Version: 6.3.6
KDE Frameworks Version: 6.13.0
Qt Version: 6.8.2
Kernel Version: 6.12.63+deb13-amd64 (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: Wayland
Processors: 32 × AMD Ryzen 9 7950X 16-Core Processor
Memory: 128 GiB of RAM (124.9 GiB usable)
Graphics Processor 1: AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX
Graphics Processor 2: AMD Radeon Graphics

does the same thing happen if you boot to a new user acct?

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I haven’t tried making a new user account.
I will as soon as I get home from work. :slight_smile:

Do you think it’s an installed application that is causing Spectacle to act like this?
:thinking:

a new user will tell if there is something in your dot files causing an issue…

if it’s still misbehaves under a new user then it is the installed program that is borked or misconfigured by root.

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Same issue here. Constant crashes as soon as i’ve captured a rectangular region. Updated system yesterday, but was a system update i did a few days ago, and that made spectacle crash on nearly every capture i did, whether it was copy capture, or save. as well as if i accidentally pressed capture rectangular region twice, it’d freeze upon the full screen popup of region to capture. So i have to terminate process to capture every time.

Operating System: CachyOS Linux
KDE Plasma Version: 6.5.5
KDE Frameworks Version: 6.22.0
Qt Version: 6.10.1
Kernel Version: 6.18.6-2-cachyos (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: Wayland
Processors: 24 × AMD Ryzen 9 5900X 12-Core Processor
Memory: 64 GiB of RAM (62.7 GiB usable)
Graphics Processor: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090