How to take screenshot?

[ygrex]

Hi,

Pressing Up+Down volume buttons gives a screen flash, but nothing appears under Screenshots/ directory

not sure if it is relevant to the issue, but it also logs this lines:

Jun 26 13:36:03 ubuntu-phablet lomiri[2703]: [2025-06-26:13:36:03.404] qml: ItemGrabber: No fileName to save image to

tried fbcat, but it gives me distorted picture

and failed to get anything useful from raw /dev/fb0

[ygrex]

finally got it resolved, deleted ~/Pictures (it was a symlink to other place on sdcard) and rebooted

[Ian]

@ygrex On my Vollaphone X running 20.04 OTA 9 it works as expected. Pressing volume up and down together gives a camera shutter noise and the screenshot appears in Gallery.

[stanwood]

Did you try the other way?
Long press the power button and click on "screenshot".

Not sure it will change anything, but it's worth a try.

[kugiigi]

@ygrex Did you by any chance do something with sharing UT folders with Waydroid?

[ygrex]

@stanwood said in How to take screenshot?:

Did you try the other way?
Long press the power button and click on "screenshot".

Not sure it will change anything, but it's worth a try.

just checked this way, all the same result: screen flashes, clicking sound, but no files appeared

[ygrex]

@kugiigi said in How to take screenshot?:

@ygrex Did you by any chance do something with sharing UT folders with Waydroid?

nope, I do not have waydroid

[ygrex]

finally got it resolved, deleted ~/Pictures (it was a symlink to other place on sdcard) and rebooted

[Nicolai Ek]

@kugiigi I did. Screenshots stopped appearing after I connected Waydroid using sudo mount --bind ~/Pictures ~/.local/share/waydroid/data/media/0/Pictures. I suspect the two are related purely based on timing. Do you know anything about it?

[arubislander]

@Nicolai-Ek they are related. Waydroid changed the permissions of folders it has access to. Making it so that the phablet user can no longer access the folder.