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I freshly installed Ubuntu as my main operating system. I was using Flameshot frequently in Windows but I am having issues on Ubuntu.

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When I click on the launcher, now it is opening a small menu. And asking me what I want: Take screenshots, open launcher, etc. ( it was not asking before ) That is ok but the thing is that when I click take a screenshot, it is directly taking all screen. After that when I click options, it allows me to choose where to select. But again, I do not see here the flameshot features like this:

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 user  archer  ~  flameshot --version
Flameshot v11.0.0 (11.0.0-2 Debian)

user  archer  ~  lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description:    Ubuntu 22.04.1 LTS
Release:    22.04
Codename:   jammy

Also previously, when I take a screenshot, it was up to me to save somewhere the screenshot, I was usually using a clickboard and pasting somewhere. Now it is just saving it as file.

archerlinuxer
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Are you running Wayland as your Window manager?

Look under Settings...About...

Windowing System

Look where it says Windowing System (mine says X11).

I noticed some odd behaviors when running Wayland and then when I switched to X11 those things cleared up.

Here's how you can change it if you want to : Use X11 instead of Wayland.

I couldn't run the Android Emulator (before changing).

I also saw an issue when running Remmina on Wayland.

raddevus
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    ``.. $ sudo nano /etc/gdm3/custom.conf WaylandEnable=false... After restart, this solved my issue. Thanks!! But I am not sure what it is exactly. Does it better than Wayland in other issues? Why ubuntu 22 comes with it? – archerlinuxer Nov 08 '22 at 20:02
  • I was in the same situation -- I wasn't exactly sure how using X11 would be different. The one thing I did know is that the older version of Ubuntu I was using had been running X11 and Wayland is newer so I figured it would probably be ok. I've been running 22.04.1 for a few weeks on X11 and all is working great now. – raddevus Nov 08 '22 at 20:04
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    fyi https://flameshot.org/docs/guide/wayland-help/ – nocibambi May 08 '23 at 11:50
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When you take a screenshot on ubuntu Ubuntu 22.04.1 LTS there is a button "share" that you can access the menu. Following the image: Flameshot Menu

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