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After I upgraded to Ubuntu 17.10, I am facing a serious shortcoming in gimp. The screenshots are completely black.

Most likely this is a bug, but I thought of investigating a bit just to find out if I am missing something.

The other Screenshot software, version 3.25.0 is working fine.

Masroor
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  • It works for me in Ubuntu 17.10 persistent live. Maybe your problem is because you have upgraded from a previous version, and there are some settings or libraries left from the previous version. – sudodus Oct 20 '17 at 05:50
  • @sudodus Do you think that purging gimp* and then installing again will help? – Masroor Oct 20 '17 at 05:55
  • You can try, maybe it is enough :-) Maybe you have to purge and reinstall something else (I don't know what it would be). – sudodus Oct 20 '17 at 06:12
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    @sudodus I tried purge and then autoremove and install, no luck. Even rebooted my machine in between for good measures. – Masroor Oct 20 '17 at 06:34
  • You can download and make a USB boot drive of Ubuntu 17.10. Boot live 'Try Ubuntu', then you can sudo add-apt-repository universe; sudo apt update; sudo apt install gimp and try if screenshot with gimp works in your computer. If it does, you can consider making a fresh installation instead of the upgraded system that you have now. Of course, before you start on this venture, you should backup all files, that you cannot afford to lose. – sudodus Oct 20 '17 at 06:43
  • You would say, that this feature in gimp is not reason enough to make a fresh installation, but this version of Ubuntu is very different from the previous versions, because there is a new desktop environment, and there is Wayland instead of X. So there may be many other problems in upgraded systems, things that work in a fresh installation. – sudodus Oct 20 '17 at 06:49
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    I'm not exactly sure but maybe it's an issue with Wayland. Try switching to an Xorg session. – pomsky Oct 20 '17 at 08:16
  • @pomsky Indeed, switching to an Xorg session solved the issues with gimp. Any comprehensive suggestion? – Masroor Oct 20 '17 at 10:50

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