after update, suddenly gnome-screenshot won't start

[drago01]

On Thu, Aug 28, 2014 at 9:59 PM, Matthias Clasen <mclasen at redhat.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 2014-08-28 at 15:38 -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>>   did a massive "yum update" on my 64-bit ASUS laptop earlier today
>> and, suddenly, gnome-screenshot won't come up. if i now go to
>> "Activities" and left click ... nothing.
>>
>>   if i run "gnome-screenshot" from the command line, i get a sudden
>> burst of white on the display, then nothing.
>>
>>   at least one other graphical app (qoppa's studio pro PDF editor) is
>> also behaving weirdly. anyone else finding strange things happening in
>> their gnome desktop session?
>>
>
> gnome-screenshot does what its name says, it takes a screenshot (with a
> flash effect, which is what you describe). If you want to tweak settings
> before taking the screenshot, run it in interactive mode:
>
> gnome-screenshot --interactive

Yeah but the desktop file should run it in interactive mode (can't
check right now if it indeed does that).