Why does Flameshot take a general screenshot?

[saschati]

Flameshot Version

Flameshot v11.0.0 (11.0.0-2 Debian)
Compiled with Qt 5.15.2

Installation Type

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

Operating System type and version

ubuntu 22.04

Description

Why does Flameshot take a general screenshot of the screen before letting me select the screenshot area?
For example, this is what happens when I select "Take Screenshot":

It takes a screenshot of the entire screen, then saves that screenshot in the Pictures folder, and displays this window, and displays a message that is not true, because after I click Share, the screenshot creation window that should have appeared in the beginning appears.

Can this behavior be changed?

Steps to reproduce

1. Install Flameshot
2. Click "Take Screenshot"

Screenshots or screen recordings

No response

System Information

System:
Host: olexander Kernel: 5.19.0-46-generic x86_64 bits: 64
Desktop: GNOME 42.5 Distro: Ubuntu 22.04.2 LTS (Jammy Jellyfish)
Graphics:
Device-1: NVIDIA TU116M [GeForce GTX 1660 Ti Mobile] driver: nouveau
v: kernel
Device-2: AMD Renoir driver: amdgpu v: kernel
Device-3: Sonix USB2.0 HD UVC WebCam type: USB driver: uvcvideo
Display: wayland server: X.Org v: 1.22.1.1 with: Xwayland v: 22.1.1
compositor: gnome-shell driver: gpu: amdgpu resolution: 1: 1920x108060Hz
2: 1920x1080120Hz
OpenGL: renderer: RENOIR (renoir LLVM 15.0.6 DRM 3.47 5.19.0-46-generic)
v: 4.6 Mesa 22.2.5

Monitors: 2
0: +*XWAYLAND0 1920/530x1080/300+1920+0 XWAYLAND0
1: +XWAYLAND1 1920/380x1080/210+0+0 XWAYLAND1

[mmahmoudian]

Why does Flameshot take a general screenshot of the screen before letting me select the screenshot area?

Well, in short, because you chose to use Gnome Wayland. It would have probably saved a lot of your time if you would have searched among open and closed issues or search in our documentation:

https://flameshot.org/docs/guide/wayland-help/#gnome-wayland

Duplicate of all the issues below. Reading any of them would have saved you time and energy:

• Flameshot GUI won't open #3030
• Why not just take a screenshot instead of jumping out of the share page first? #2956
• Where is the menu when taking a screenshot? #2939
• Impossible to have the screenshot launcher #2869
• Can not disable whole area automatic screenshot when making screenshot from icon tray  #2816
• New installation, there's no way to use the select area + editing tools #2751
• Flameshot not working on Fedora36 Workstation (Wayland) #2745
• Test bot #2695
• Dont show directly on printScr and saving automatically #2651
• Share this screenshot with the requesting application? #2646
• Gnome 42 + Wayland  #2601
• Flameshot just takes screenshot with no opportunity to select area or annotate in 22.04 ubuntu #2594
• Flameshot only allows full screen shots and uploads instead of saving with ubuntu: 22.04 #2593
• An additional window appeared in Ubuntu 22 #2563
• Unable to capture area with flameshot gui shortcut #2474
• Due to recent GNOME 41 update, to take screenshot I need to click "Share" EVERY time. #2186
• "flameshot gui" runs GNOME screenshot tool  #2143
• 0.10.2 identifies itself as 0.10.1, then requests to be updated to 0.10.2 (!) #2119
• [Arch] Flameshot gui will not start #2088
• App doesn't open in Fedora 35 with Gnome and X11. #2082
• Gnome41/Wayland, failed to take screenshot #2049
• Gnome40/Wayland unable to capture screen with latest build (e4e7c90) #2041
• Cannot take screenshot on gnome 41 + wayland #1910

Anyways, thanks for investing time and opening the issue.