Apropos of nothing, but as someone who habitually has long made use of the standalone GNOME Screenshot tool in Ubuntu, I wanted to pass on word that it longer works in Ubuntu 25.10 with GNOME 491 — like, at all. It’s neither bug nor a regression (at least, inadvertently), but by design. GNOME developers have removed the app’s access to the private screenshotting API, noting that there is “no good reason anymore for treating it differently than other 3rd-party screenshot tools” because the desktop has its own native screenshot tool. GNOME Shell 42 added the built-in and interactive screenshot (and […]You're reading GNOME Screenshot App No Longer Works in GNOME 49, a blog post from OMG! Ubuntu. Do not reproduce elsewhere without permission.