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gnome-shell collapses caused by screenshot

Asked by Marzy

Today when I was visiting a website and wanted to take a screenshot, I pressed Shift+Print Screen. Then I changed my mind and right-clicked the mouse to cancel the screenshot. After I did this, however, the gnome-shell collapsed and there came out a notification asking me to send messages to ubuntu. A moment later the gnome-shell restarted again. So I tried again the operations described above and the same thing happened, except that gnome-shell didn't restart at this time. What was worse, I couldn't input via my keyboard any more! That means I couldn't restart my computer in the terminal. So I used tty2 to restart and reported the problem here, wondering if this is a bug? Or the conflict with other programs? The distribution I use is Ubuntu 12.04.1, and the gnome-shell's version is 3.4.1.

Hope my messages do some help. Thank you for reading!

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#1

Try scrot or imagemagick at CLI with:

import ~/Screenshot.png

Sounds like a bug to me

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Marzy (marzy-ya) said : 		#2

I'm sorry that I'm a freshman here and I don't know how to reply a user. These are words replied to actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666):
Is the command you mentioned a way to take a full screenshot? I have tried the command at the terminal and it asked me to install imagemagick. If the command is just for a screenshot, it's totally unnecessary as the screenshot I'm using is enough, ignoring the unusual phenomenon I can hardly meet in daily use. If not, what should I do then? I don't quite understand CLI although I had google for it, and I don't know whether the terminal at ubuntu is a part of it.

Whatever, thank you for your answer. XD

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