Can't start flameshot

[VG08]

Flameshot Version

v0.10.2

Installation Type

Linux, MacOS, or Windows Package manager (apt, pacman, eopkg, choco, brew, ...)

Operating System type and version

arch linux

Description

the problem I am having is that when i run flameshot gui it does nothing and exits instantly and when I do flameshot it gives me this error
QSettings::value: Empty key passed QSettings::value: Empty key passed QSettings::setValue: Empty key passed QSettings::value: Empty key passed QSettings::setValue: Empty key passed

Steps to reproduce

I don't remember doing anything special because of this is happening but it is giving me what I told above.

Screenshots or screen recordings

System Information

I am using arch linux. dwm with xorg

[mmahmoudian]

@VG08 dwm does not ship with two important things: notification manager and systray. There is a patch for systray and for notification you can install something like dunst.

But if you really don't want to have these on your system, you can turn off the systray and notifications options in the Flameshot config before launching flameshot.

If you have sort them out (either by installing or disabling) and you still have issues, please try the following and give us the output:

1. Open two terminals
2. In the first one run

pkill flameshot
flameshot

3. In the second terminal run

flameshot gui

[VG08]

@mmahmoudian I have dunst for for notifs no systray tho, I did what you said and flameshot gui opens up flameshot, I actually thought that flameshot gui runs without flameshot running in bg, also I used trayer to check for systray and flameshot shows up there, also sorry for late reply.

[mmahmoudian]

@VG08 in newer version the idea is to reduce dependency to dbus and therefore much much less need for background process.

Checkout #2003

[VG08]

oh ok thanks, imma put flameshot into my startup