F12/Take Screenshot Not Saving Screenshot under Linux?

[DigitalMan43]

I am running OSCAR 1.5.0 under Linux (Fedora Workstation 38 with GNOME). I installed via Flatpak from FlatHub. Whenever I try to save a screenshot either using F12 or View -> Take Screenshot, the save window pops up and I select the directory and filename I want and then click on Save but it never actually saves the file.

The debug.txt just says:
2368577: Debug:    Saving screenshot to "/home/<myname>/screenshot-20230930-121225.png"

I see a similar line in journalctl:
Sep 30 12:03:51 overkill com.sleepfiles.OSCAR.desktop[7343]: 1847842: Debug:    Saving screenshot to "/home/<myname.l/screenshot-20230930-120341.png"


Any ideas why this isn't working?

Thanks!

[Crimson Nape]

Hi DigitalMan43!  -  

The OSCAR team never developed a flatpak version of OSCAR.  I would not trust any build that you didn't download here, or directly from https://www.sleepfiles.com/OSCAR/. Where did you get this file?

The most current version is 1.5.1.

- Red

[DigitalMan43]

Red,

I downloaded the Linux Flatpak from Flathub:

I can't post links yet, so search for OSCAR on flathub.org.

On the official OSCAR download site, I could only find Debian and Ubuntu downloads but I run Fedora. Is there another recommended method to use OSCAR on Fedora Linux?

Doing further research, I found a discussion about it on Github so I'm assuming this is the version on Flathub. Unfortunately I can't post links yet, but it's issue 50 on the pholy/OSCAR-code Github site.
gitlab.com/pholy/OSCAR-code/-/issues/50

I checked the Flatpak permissions in Flatseal and it has access to "All user files filesystem=home" and that's where I'm saving it so it seems ok.

Thanks,
DM

[Crimson Nape]

Here is an alternative that will allow you to get a valid copy of OSCAR.

Obtaining and Installing Alien:
Fedora and Ubuntu based distros all seem to have Alien in the base repos.

#Install on Fedora:
sudo dnf install alien

Converting packages with Alien:
There are several flags that can be used while converting a package. They are:

-d or --to-deb
Make debian packages. This is the default.

-r or --to-rpm
Make rpm packages.

-t or --to-tgz
Make tgz packages.

--to-slp
Make slp packages.

-p or --to-pkg
Make Solaris pkg packages.

-i or --install
Automatically install each generated package, and remove the package file after it has been installed.

The basic command is:
alien [options] filename (For this post, I am using the Debian12.deb distro as an example)

Just to convert the file:
alien -r  oscar_1.5.1-Debian12_amd64.deb

Alternately, you could run the command below to install the rpm after conversion:
sudo alien -r -i  oscar_1.5.1-Debian12_amd64.deb

Here is a video on using Alien:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GVXegxFeSUc




I hope this may help.

- Red

[DigitalMan43]

Thanks for the tip on Alien, I may give that a try.

I found another option I may try, but I suspect it's not official either. COPR is a Fedora repository that provides rpms and someone put it up there too.

copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/johanh/oscar/