How to Print Screen or Capture an Area of the Screen

If none of the other options are working you can use the command line to acquire screenshots too.

$ import screenshot.png

$ import -window root -resize 400×300 -delay 200 screenshot.png

This is part of ImageMagick. There's also scrot too.

$ scrot MyScreenshot.png

$ scrot -b -d 5 '%Y:%m:%d:%H:%M:%S.png' -e 'mv $f ~/Desktop/'

In this example,

• -b specifies including the window borders
• -d specifies a delay of five seconds
• '%Y:%m:%d:%H:%M:%S.png' will save the screenshot with a name based on the current date and time and with the format specified, .png in this case
• -e 'mv $f ~/Desktop/' tells scrot to save the screenshot to the Desktop

The above was heavily borrowed from this AU Q&A titled: What is the terminal command to take a screenshot?.

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