Hi there,

I haven't been able to launch spectacle from the PrtSc button on my keyboard for a while. Maybe since I upgraded from debian 9 to debian 10.

These are my settings. I have tried resetting to defaults.



I found this in in ~/.xession-errors when I press PrtSc or Meta+E:

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kdeinit5: Got EXEC_NEW '' from launcher.
kdeinit5: preparing to launch 'libkdeinit5_'
Could not open library 'libkdeinit5_'.
Cannot load library libkdeinit5_: (libkdeinit5_: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory)
kdeinit5: PID 30413 terminated.

I found this in ~/.config/kglobalshortcutsrc:

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[org.kde.spectacle.desktop]
ActiveWindowScreenShot=Meta+Print,Meta+Print,Capture Active Window
CurrentMonitorScreenShot=,none,Capture Current Monitor
FullScreenScreenShot=Shift+Print,Shift+Print,Capture Entire Desktop
RectangularRegionScreenShot=Meta+Shift+Print,Meta+Shift+Print,Capture Rectangular Region
_k_friendly_name=Spectacle
_launch=Print,Print,Launch Spectacle

kde-spectacle: 18.04.0-1
plasma-workspace: 4:5.14.5.1-1
dolphin: 4:18.08.0-1

Anyone got any ideas?

The same as you

Same issue here. FWIW, I am running Plasma 5.18.5 on PopOS 20.04, which I assume is using the Plasma binaries from Ubuntu 20.04.

I have been having issues with Plasma shortcuts not working in several distros, even posted about it here: https://forum.kde.org/viewtopic.php?f=17&t=166079

I am not holding my breath this will be fixed in a hurry. Can't believe something as simple as application shortcuts is so hard for them to fix.

epicpilgrim wrote:Can't believe something as simple as application shortcuts is so hard for them to fix.

It's always hard to figure out what's wrong when nothing happens. It's much easier to track down when something happens.

Jayen wrote:Hi there,

I haven't been able to launch spectacle from the PrtSc button on my keyboard for a while. Maybe since I upgraded from debian 9 to debian 10.

These are my settings. I have tried resetting to defaults.



I found this in in ~/.xession-errors when I press PrtSc or Meta+E:

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kdeinit5: Got EXEC_NEW '' from launcher.
kdeinit5: preparing to launch 'libkdeinit5_'
Could not open library 'libkdeinit5_'.
Cannot load library libkdeinit5_: (libkdeinit5_: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory)
kdeinit5: PID 30413 terminated.

I found this in ~/.config/kglobalshortcutsrc:

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[org.kde.spectacle.desktop]
ActiveWindowScreenShot=Meta+Print,Meta+Print,Capture Active Window
CurrentMonitorScreenShot=,none,Capture Current Monitor
FullScreenScreenShot=Shift+Print,Shift+Print,Capture Entire Desktop
RectangularRegionScreenShot=Meta+Shift+Print,Meta+Shift+Print,Capture Rectangular Region
_k_friendly_name=Spectacle
_launch=Print,Print,Launch Spectacle

kde-spectacle: 18.04.0-1
plasma-workspace: 4:5.14.5.1-1
dolphin: 4:18.08.0-1

Anyone got any ideas?

Had a similar issue with KRunner

Noticed that there is an "Application Launcher" for KRunner and an "Other Shortcuts" for Run Command.
I set the shortcuts that were on Application Launcher > KRunner to Other Shortcuts > Run Command and it worked.

My kglobalshortcutsrc had entries for both and reflected the changes

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[krunner]
_k_friendly_name=Run Command
run command=Alt+Space\tAlt+F2,Alt+Space,Run Command
run command on clipboard contents=Alt+Shift+F2,Alt+Shift+F2,Run Command on clipboard contents

[krunner.desktop]
RunClipboard=,Alt+Shift+F2,Run command on clipboard contents
_k_friendly_name=KRunner
_launch=\t\tSearch,none,KRunner


Your screenshot has an entry for Spectacle under Application Launchers but I don't have a similar entry. In my shortcuts, under Other Shortcuts > KDE Daemon there is an entry for Start Screenshot Tool with Print as the shortcut. I suggest you move the shortcut key and abandon the Spectacle entry under Application Launchers.



This is the corresponding entry in kglobalshortcutsrc

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[khotkeys]
_k_friendly_name=KDE Daemon
{04fc503d-5e46-4828-bb2c-e83c9b7e5bd3}=Shift+Print,none,Take Full Screen Screenshot
{8c4361f9-3ab4-4767-b40b-089d87deb0ed}=Ctrl+Alt+T,none,Launch Konsole
{c5f64245-421a-48dd-8eb1-d1a8aafaf75d}=Print,none,Start Screenshot Tool
{c8d69e12-2fed-49d1-a452-8ea9c15fd90b}=Meta+Print,none,Take Active Window Screenshot
{d03619b6-9b3c-48cc-9d9c-a2aadb485550}=,none,Search


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plasmashell 5.16.5
Qt: 5.12.4
KDE Frameworks: 5.62.0
kf5-config: 1.0


kahbenya wrote:I set the shortcuts that were on Application Launcher > KRunner to Other Shortcuts > Run Command and it worked.

Very helpful. I forgot I used kmenuedit to setup konsole with a shortcut key, and setting up Spectacle to launch this way with the PrtSc key works.

I have the same, on Kubuntu 21.04. Unfortunately using kmenuedit to set up Spectacle also doesn't work for me; it results in the same errors in .xsession-errors.

I can confirm that the approach on viewtopic.php?f=17&t=166079 helped:
- In System Settings, Shortcuts, remove the entire Spectacle section
- Log out, then log back in
- Go to System Settings, Shortcuts, and see that Spectacle is restored with default shortcuts.
- Try the Print Screen key, it should launch Spectacle now.