Fedora – Fix Screenshot to Clipboard Not Working After Update

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After system-upgrading from Fedora 30 to 31 I am super happy with the new release.

The only thing that stopped working I'm aware of is the possibility to copy a screenshot to the clipboard right away.

I use

  • Ctrl+Shift+Print Screenshot area to clipboard
  • Ctrl+Alt+Print Screenshot window to clipboard

a lot, and miss it very much though.

Google found nothing on this issue,
and I don't really know how to debug it..

I'm running Gnome on Wayland, no specific configuration.
Checked, overrode and reset shortcuts to default – no changes.

Shortcuts are firing, I can mark an area to copy, but the clipboard stays at it's previous content.

Screenshot to file still works like a charm.

Best Answer

I have exactly the same problem with Fedora 31 (Gnome workstation) after upgrading from Fedora 30. I have a Dell OptiPlex 7050 (i7 processor with Intel HD Graphics 630).

The "solution" is to use the X11 login instead of Wayland. This is far from ideal, because I prefer Wayland's rendering of GTK applications and Firefox (which is clearly much better in Wayland, with the better use of the window title bar).

I noted that other people reported this:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1751646

Further, this bugreport (linked to in the above) goes into the detail:

https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter/issues/789#note_631911

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