Downstream (fedora) bug report - https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1340522 Description of problem: I am not sure whether it is bug in gimp or xfce/xfce4-screenshooter, but filing against gimp, because it (at least) behaves strangely. I haven't tried in different DE. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): gimp-2.8.18-1.fc24.x86_64 xfce4-screenshooter-1.8.2-6.fc24.x86_64 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Login to xfce 2. Run xfce4-screenshooter 3. Took screenshot to the clipboard 4. Open gimp 5. File-New-Create from clipboard (CTRL + SHIFT + V) Actual results: It takes some time than it writes "There is no image data in the clipboard" Expected results: Import of image data without timeout This seems to happen primarily on "large" resolutions. comment #11 on downstream bug report - Maybe I got it, it seems to be related to my desktop size, it's 5280 x 1080, which is, well, not low. If I took screenshot of screen selection, let's say 100x100 pixels, it works OK. But in the past it worked OK for the whole screen as well, IIRC F23, so it's probably regression. comment #13 there (this is my comment) - Aha!!! I can reproduce this. I have an external monitor attached to my system. 1920x1080 + 1280x1024 (old monitor ... ) seems to "not work" either! But .. what's happening is that xfce4-screenshooter is taking awfully long to actually paste it to any application under test. For the above resolution, it took me close to 2 mins to paste - but it did paste. So, clearly, it is unusable. I will file this upstream. To me it seems like screenshooter has some issues handling large images.
xfce4-screenshooter 1.8.2 Can't paste large screenshots from clipboard to: - firefox (inserts image directly in text field) - chromium (~3 sec freezes and nothing happens) - vk-desktop-messenger (chromium)(~20 sec freezes and nothing happens) - telegram-desktop (chromium)(~10 sec freezes but works fine) maim works fine with all these cases I think it's same issue
This bug also affects gnome-screenshot, so I filled a bug report: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=781925
Just for the record, I end up opening a bug for xfsettingsd: Bug #13537
*** Bug 11646 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 13395 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 10426 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 12704 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Closing since this is not a screenshooter bug.