[Solved] - Screenshot not working (Debian Stretch fvwm)

[afrie]

If I click on the camera icon in the status line and then
Full Page -> Save as PNG -> Capture Page
an error window pops up:
On linux mint the screenshot tool works fine, so I think something is missing in my environment. I am using the fvwm window manager (no GNOME, no KDE).
Any ideas what is missing?

[afrie]

@gwen-dragon I'm using
Debian GNU/Linux 9 (stretch) and fvwm 1:2.6.7-3.
When I start vivaldi from a terminal, I see the following error message:

ERROR dbus-server.cc:865 [dbus_server_init]: D-Bus error: Unknown or unsupported transport 'disabled' for address 'disabled:'
ERROR util.cc:295 [audgui_simple_message]: No files found.

The screenshot will be saved in ~/Pictures/Vivaldi Captures/ but at the same time the error popup appears my standard audio player (audacious) is opened! So if I take 10 screenshots, audacious was opened 10 times too! So I think it's a dbus problem with vivaldi, but I don't know how to fix it.

[lamarca]

The capture page is working fine.

@afrie said in Screenshot not working (Debian Stretch fvwm):

... but at the same time the error popup appears my standard audio player (audacious) is opened!

Really strange. It seems Twilight Zone.
Try starting Vivaldi from shell:

vivaldi-snapshot --user-data-dir="/tmp/TEST-VIV" &
or
vivaldi-stable --user-data-dir="/tmp/TEST-VIV" &

[afrie]

@lamarca I've tried both - same dbus error.

[lamarca]

@afrie dbus has some nasty issues.

[afrie]

@lamarca I've tried it again on another linux mint system with Xfce running and find out that after storing the screenshots a file manager (thunar) is openend.

I think that's the problem, because on my system I have no file manager installed and therefore the default audio player is opened.

Is there a way to disable the call of the file manager in vivaldi? If not, a configuration option would be nice.

[afrie]

@afrie ... or a better solution: Maybe vivaldi can check if a file manager is available before calling it.

[lamarca]

@afrie For me the Capture Page opens my image viewer (Mirage). It could be relate to MIME types.

[afrie]

@lamarca Yes you are right.
After the screenshot was stored, vivaldi calls an application which was defined for the mime type inode/directory. The default application for this type is the music player audacious on my system (which is wrong - don't know why):

xdg-mime query default inode/directory
audacious.desktop

Workaround:
Because I have no file manager installed (and don't want to have one), there is no application which could handle inode/directory. So I created a "null" application which does nothing:

vi ~/.local/share/applications/null_application.desktop
[Desktop Entry]
Version=1.0
Type=Application
Exec=true
TryExec=true
StartupNotify=true
Terminal=false
MimeType=inode/directory;

Then override the default for "inode/directory":

vi ~/.local/share/applications/mimeapps.list
[Default Applications]
inode/directory=null_application.desktop

Now, nothing happens after the screenshot was stored. Maybe this helps someone.

[lamarca]

Glad to know. In this case, dbus is not guilty:)

@afrie said in Screenshot not working (Debian Stretch fvwm):

....... Maybe this helps someone.

I will tag your post as Resolved.

[afrie]

@gwen-dragon Oh no no no, there is nothing broken.

Debian allows you to set up a small system which can be configured at your needs. I know many people like me, which are working on command line and don't want a full featured desktop environment!

In my opinion it is not the task of a browser to call a file manager GUI automatically after a screenshot was saved. I know no other browser which does something like that. Why is no file manager called after a download was finished? It's a similar situation.

Thank you for the feature hint but I don't think a feature is missing in Vivaldi, I think this feature should be removed.

[iAN CooG]

@afrie said in [Solved] - Screenshot not working (Debian Stretch fvwm):

I think this feature should be removed

It's better if it's customizable, what if one wants to see the snapshots directory?