Screenshot app malfunctioning, Linux Mint 13 with Cinnamon

[zerozero]

cygnus,
tks very much

[empire--dumps]

Same issue here.
viewtopic.php?f=49&t=119018

[jpkmaster]

Any update on this issue? It seems to be an issue related with cinnamon and fglrx. I read somewhere that radeon drivers are not afectted with this problem.

[JESSEJJ89]

Does this problem still persists ? And are the Radeon drivers affected ?

[JESSEJJ89]

BUMP (don't know if this is allowed)

[Dodongo]

Does this problem still persists ? And are the Radeon drivers affected ?

It's still a problem for me with an AMD Radeon HD 7500 Series. Screenshots show the screen as it was several minutes ago.

I'm using Linux Mint 13 Maya. In "Additional Drivers" I have selected "ATI/AMD proprietary FGLRX graphics driver (post-release updates)".

I use the workaround posted by Devil999 a few posts back: press Alt-F2 and type 'r' (just the letter). Then take the screenshot. It's not a fix, but it has always worked for me.

[JESSEJJ89]

Does this problem still persists ? And are the Radeon drivers affected ?

It's still a problem for me with an AMD Radeon HD 7500 Series. Screenshots show the screen as it was several minutes ago.

I'm using Linux Mint 13 Maya. In "Additional Drivers" I have selected "ATI/AMD proprietary FGLRX graphics driver (post-release updates)".

I use the workaround posted by Devil999 a few posts back: press Alt-F2 and type 'r' (just the letter). Then take the screenshot. It's not a fix, but it has always worked for me.

My problem is that it also affects Skype.. I use it's "share your screen" feature, but it just shows my background on the other users end. I'll just install Ubuntu 12.10, and hopefully it doesn't give me the same problems.

[Slabity]

I just wanted to see if I could share some information that I've found in this issue, and possibly get a response?

I've been trying to use VLC to stream my desktop to a file, but whenever I start it, it only gives a single image. I believe these two issues are connected, though, as when I tried to take a screenshot to troubleshoot it, my screenshot only took a picture of what VLC was showing:

http://i.imgur.com/UT8wyeK.jpg

If it helps at all, this is the result from 'inxi -Gx' command:

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Graphics:  Card: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI Barts XT [Radeon HD 6800 Series] bus-ID: 01:00.0
           X.Org: 1.13.0 driver: fglrx Resolution: 1920x1080@60.0hz
           GLX Renderer: AMD Radeon HD 6800 Series GLX Version: 4.2.12002 - CPC 9.012 Direct Rendering: Yes

Does anyone know what the issue is?

[monkebusiness]

Hi,

I did some testing and I experience the black screenshot problem only when using my integrated graphics card. Also when picking colors etc from the screen it only returns black. When using the discrete grapics card taking screenshots and other stuff works fine. (I have an ATI 6720G2)

Maybe the screenshot programs always uses the discrete card even if it's turned off.

[jaskmar]

Has anyone solved this problem yet?

[rectec]

Unfortunately, no. I still have this problem with 1.8.6 (Ubuntu 13.04 with fglrx-updates drivers.). But I'd like to congratulate this thread on its one year anniversary! Still going strong!

[jaskmar]

Do Cinnamon developers even know about this issue? What do they say? I am asking as I don't know bug-repairing procedures, I only know there exist something like that.

[jaskmar]

OK, I've got the solution. I have just upgraded my Linux Mint from 14 "Nadia" to 15 "Olivia" and everything is fine now. I also use to have diferent bugs conected with Graphics, but after upgrading everything works excellent. Guys did their jobs

I strongly recommend to upgrade to Olivia for those, who have ATI/AMD Graphics Card.
Greathings!

[rectec]

The problem seems to have been fixed with the latest version of Cinnamon. After months of deliberation, I've finally decided to take the plunge back into Arch Linux. Arch (as of writing) has Cinnamon 1.8.8 in its repos. I installed Arch along with Cinnamon yesterday, and I'm happy to say that I no longer have this issue regarding FGLRX and Cinnamon. I'm currently using Cinnamon 1.8.8 with SLiM as the display manager, and I'm pretty satisfied.

To those who have this problem: upgrade to the latest version of Cinnamon, if you have Linux Mint 14, try upgrading to Linux Mint 15, like jaskmar said. Regarding LMDE, 1.8 should be either in the romeo repository or the official repositories. Not sure which. It was in romeo last time I checked but it's possible that it has made it to the main repos now.

Anyway, thanks to the devs for fixing this problem!