No screenshots when invoked via custom keyboard shortcut on Gnome

[alvv-z]

I have set up custom shortcuts for Print and Ctrl+Print, and after working once, neither takes a screenshot now. It seems like maim exits right after calling, without taking a screenshot. I have tried multiple different invocations, including:

• maim --format='png' --hidecursor --quality 10 --select | xclip -selection clipboard -t image/png for Print
• maim | tee ~/Pictures/Screenshots/$(date +%s).png | xclip -selection clipboard for Ctrl+Print

with and without the --nokeyboard option. When executing the commands from a terminal in any directory, they work.

[foxpy]

Try sh -c 'maim --format="png" --hidecursor --quality 10 --select | xclip -selection clipboard -t image/png'

[alvv-z]

Try sh -c 'maim --format="png" --hidecursor --quality 10 --select | xclip -selection clipboard -t image/png'

You're my savior. Thanks a lot. Do you have any ideas as to why the command has to be wrapped like this? It seems odd since it worked once.

[alvv-z]

@foxpy should I close this issue since it is a DE issue, or do you think it's a maim issue?

[foxpy]

@foxpy should I close this issue since it is a DE issue, or do you think it's a maim issue?

I don't think it is an issue at all. I guess previously DE has been passing user-provided snippet to a shell, but now it invokes it as a whole command (hence now you need to pass it wrapped in sh).

So, it is not a problem with your DE or with maim.