Keeping Spectacle down

[GreyGeek]

Well, shoot. That's not good.

Do you have a different computer you can use for your wife's project until this gets fixed? (And for playing games, perhaps?)

I'm confused by something: why would window$ users use wine?

Her computer is a 32bit 10" notebook, Acer Aspire 0D521, that runs so slow it can lose a race against molasses.

People using WINE on Windows was a question that I had until I realized that many activate WSL or WSL2 and install Ubuntu to use WINE to run exe's that they don't want contaminating their Windows host, mainly old or hacked games and/or commerical apps.

[DoYouKubuntu]

I see a LOT of reports about it from all distros AND Windows users.
The problem relates to the Installshield
/home/jerry/.wine/drive_c/Program Files (x86)/Common Files/InstallShield/Professional/
and IsProBE.tlb file. Some get by with deleting the 'Professional" subdirectory and retrying the install, but that doesn't work for me.
I've also preloaded a bunch of XP dlls, cabs, linkers, compilers and other tools but to no avail.

Well, shoot. That's not good.

Do you have a different computer you can use for your wife's project until this gets fixed? (And for playing games, perhaps?)

I'm confused by something: why would window$ users use wine?

[GreyGeek]

Hmmm...I was going to suggest PlayOnLinux, but won't now! Do you know if this is a known issue? Are others reporting the same problem(s)? Hopefully it'll get fixed soon.

I see a LOT of reports about it from all distros AND Windows users.
The problem relates to the Installshield
/home/jerry/.wine/drive_c/Program Files (x86)/Common Files/InstallShield/Professional/
and IsProBE.tlb file. Some get by with deleting the 'Professional" subdirectory and retrying the install, but that doesn't work for me.
I've also preloaded a bunch of XP dlls, cabs, linkers, compilers and other tools but to no avail.

[DoYouKubuntu]

Hmmm...I was going to suggest PlayOnLinux, but won't now! Do you know if this is a known issue? Are others reporting the same problem(s)? Hopefully it'll get fixed soon.

[GreyGeek]

....
What's happening with wine? I haven't used it for a few years now so I have no recent experience with it, but I used to use it heavily. What kind of problems are you having?
...

Until KDE Neon 5.22 and the 5.11.0.36 kernel I never had a problem installing either SpaceEngine098.exe or the pgm I use to print out my wife's EGK plots. Usually all I did was install WINE, winetricksand qt4wine and then use winecfg some.exe and away it went.
Now, no matter what exe I try it always dies somewhere along the install. I also tried PlayOnLinux and Winehq, but they don't work either. I've created separate wine prefixes, Wine32 and Win64 and started with "WINEARCH=Wine32 winecfg Setup.exe", but no joy.

I suspect that the problem will be resolved and the patches to the kernel and/or wine will come down the pike when they are ready. I'm patient. I'll wait.

[DoYouKubuntu]

Ah, that probably explains it.
...
Spectacle download site for Debian, which should work in Kubuntu.
And, yes, I moved to KDE Neon 5.22 just to be closer to the front edge without bleeding too much. So far, it's working out great, save for being unable to get a working WINE environment. The 6.01 version apparently is having kernel compatibility problems.

It's all good now, GG! I've got Spectacle doing just what I wanted, so I'm good.

What's happening with wine? I haven't used it for a few years now so I have no recent experience with it, but I used to use it heavily. What kind of problems are you having?

BTW, my Kubuntu start date was Feb 4, 2009. The 9.04 beta.

My date is unknown, but it was 5.04 (Hoary Hedgehog, IIRC)--so spring 2005 is as close as I can get.

[GreyGeek]

Ah, that probably explains it.

BTW, my Kubuntu start date was Feb 4, 2009. The 9.04 beta.

Spectacle download site for Debian, which should work in Kubuntu.
And, yes, I moved to KDE Neon 5.22 just to be closer to the front edge without bleeding too much. So far, it's working out great, save for being unable to get a working WINE environment. The 6.01 version apparently is having kernel compatibility problems.

[DoYouKubuntu]

Don't be surprised. 19.12.3 is the current version of Spectacle on 20.04. GreyGeek is running KDE neon (I believe).

Oh, okay. Thanks for the info.

BTW, in your sig:
"Using Kubuntu Linux since March 23, 2007"

I wish I knew my start date! I know the rough time period, but not the exact date. I wish I did. I like keeping track of things like that. But the day I installed K for the first time, well, I didn't know K would end up being my default! And that it was a memorable date. That was back when I was still hopping from distro to distro, trying to find THE ONE.

[Snowhog]

19.12.3

Don't be surprised. 19.12.3 is the current version of Spectacle on 20.04. GreyGeek is running KDE neon (I believe).

[DoYouKubuntu]

Now that you've got a solution it doesn't matter ... BUT ... my version of Spectacle is 21.08.1 What's yours?

19.12.3

[GreyGeek]

There's nothing like that for me. I just closed Spectacle and then took a shot; the only thing that appears in my tray is Spectacle's entry:

[ATTACH=CONFIG]9545[/ATTACH]

Right-clicking on it does not give me a configure option for Spectacle; it brings up a menu for various Task Manager settings. Left-clicking just brings up Spectacle.

I wonder how I can get the configuration options you found.

Now that you've got a solution it doesn't matter ... BUT ... my version of Spectacle is 21.08.1 What's yours?

[DoYouKubuntu]

I'm blowing a big fat kiss your way, @claydoh!!

I appreciate the visuals, but your original comment was all I needed to connect the dots--the ones I knew I was missing.

Since I want to keep [F1] as my shortcut, that's what I assigned to this. If I ever need Spectacle to behave its natural way, I'll just hit [print screen] instead.

Thank you and I hope you don't mind the kiss!

[claydoh]

Create a new custom shortcut.

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Use a custom keystroke, like ctrl-printscreen, etc under the 'trigger' section. Something separate from the standard screenshot shortcut.

Your settings area *may* look slightly different (if at all), but the process and steps should be the same.

[claydoh]

Create a new custom shortcut.

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[DoYouKubuntu]

$ spectacle --help will reveal the command option(s) to use with your custom keyboard shortcut to do many things.

Thanks, "-bn" seems to work--but where do I put it?! In KMenu, Spectacle's "command" entry is this: qdbus org.kde.Spectacle / StartAgent -- I've never even seen a command like that.

Replacing that with spectacle -bn does cause a screenshot to be taken without displaying anything--but only if I run it from the menu, not if I press one of its shortcut keys. I know I'm just not connecting some dots right now...