taking screenshots is important 😀
it is very useful and mate-screenshot is an easy to use screenshot tool
that can be started by the simple press of the ancient otherwise useless “print” button (found on almost every keyboard)
if mate-screenshot gui window does not show, but runs in the background using 100% cpu
the user knows: something is wrong
after switching default users, this happened to this user
so how to fix it?
# what package does the file belong to? dpkg -S /usr/bin/mate-screenshot # this package this file mate-utils: /usr/bin/mate-screenshot # it is a bug https://github.com/mate-desktop/mate-utils/issues/191 # recreate the path that mate-screenshot used before = recreate the old folder structure # in this user's case that was mkdir -p /home/olduser/Pictures/Screenshots # give newuser full access chown -R newuser: /home/olduser/ chmod u+rw /home/user/Pictures/Screenshots # now hit print again # mate-screenshot should work as normal
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