There is no screenshot on the clipboard when calling my screenshot-shortcut xfce4-screenshooter -rc or xfce4-screenshooter -mcw
I am using xfce4-screenshooter
1.9.7 under Xubuntu 18.04.5 LTS currently with kernel 5.4.0-77-generic x86_64.
I have created various keyboard shortcuts, namely:
xfce4-screenshooter -rc
to capture a rectangular region of my screen to the clipboard,
xfce4-screenshooter -mcw
to capture the actual window with mouse pointer to the clipboard,
xfce4-screenshooter -fmd 7 -o gimp-2.8
for a delayed screenshot to be sent to gimp in order to select the region of interest there.
Sometimes the first and the second one of them don't work. The first one shows me the cursor cross and lets me select a region (which proves that xfce4-screenshooter
is involved), but after selecting the region no screenshot can be pasted from the clipboard. The target application (in many cases LO Writer or Gimp) waits for a long time before it tells me that there is nothing on the clipboard, or in the case of LO Writer, it just pastes some text which happened to be on the clipboard before my screenshot. In case of Gimp, it tells me, that no image data are on the clipboard in this situation.
What's wrong here?
Strangely the shortcut xfce4-screenshooter -fmd 7 -o gimp-2.8
works as expected (and this is my only relief in such situations). But due to the time delay (which is not always necessary for my purposes) it takes more time and the handling within Gimp takes some extra time. And more strangely, my shortcuts have worked some time ago and some times they still work. But I have no idea when they work and when they don't.