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this should help clear up some common issues with xdg desktop portal and wlroots compositors
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Sway and wlroots support
Flameshot currently supports Sway and other wlroots based Wayland compositors through xdg-desktop-portal-wlr. However, due to the way dbus works, there may be some extra steps required for the integration to work properly.
Basic steps
The following packages need to be installed: xdg-desktop-portal xdg-desktop-portal-wlr grim. Please ensure your distro packages these, or install them manually.
Ensure that environment variables are set properly. If your distro does not set them automatically, use a launch script to export XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP=sway before Sway is launched.
#!/bin/bash
export SDL_VIDEODRIVER=wayland
export _JAVA_AWT_WM_NONREPARENTING=1
export QT_QPA_PLATFORM=wayland
export XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP=sway
export XDG_SESSION_DESKTOP=sway
exec sway
You will also need to ensure that systemd/dbus is aware of these environment variables; this should be done in your sway config so that the DISPLAY and WAYLAND_DISPLAY variables are defined.
(taken from Sway wiki):
exec systemctl --user import-environment DISPLAY WAYLAND_DISPLAY SWAYSOCK
exec hash dbus-update-activation-environment 2>/dev/null && \
dbus-update-activation-environment --systemd DISPLAY WAYLAND_DISPLAY SWAYSOCK
Troubleshooting
Q) Flameshot doesn't take a screenshot, it just hangs!
A) Please ensure that the packages are installed, and that the variables are exported.
This is usually caused by flameshot receiving no response from the desktop portal. This can be verified by running dbus-monitor --session sender=org.freedesktop.portal.Desktop destination=org.freedesktop.portal.Desktop.
Q) Flameshot takes one screenshot, then won't take anymore!
A) There is a bug in xdg-desktop-portal-wlr and Flameshot causing calls with the same token to fail. If you see a sdbus vtable error in the xdpw logs, either used the patched version or update Flameshot to the latest master.