2 years of bugged screenshotting in Mint / Cinnamon
Open source tends to get into these sorts of situations...
https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?t=202909
https://github.com/linuxmint/Cinnamon/issues/3981
https://bugs.launchpad.net/linuxmint/+bug/1620318
The workaround is to do this:
![](https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F175b4b33-44b6-40d0-811a-bdb445a62802_799x624.png)
Command:
sh -c 'sleep 0.1; gnome-screenshot -a'
I think what it does is force the computer to wait 0.1 second, and then activates the usual command. No idea why this works.
man pages:
![](https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F95edd805-1b4b-415b-b849-82e3efc38d69_548x93.png)