Bug 252977

Summary: Accidental holding of the print-screen key opens hundreds of instances of ksnapshot.
Product: [I don't know] kde Reporter: Michael Compton <mc1784937>
Component: generalAssignee: Unassigned bugs mailing-list <unassigned-bugs>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE    
Severity: wishlist    
Priority: NOR    
Version: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Debian testing   
OS: Linux   
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Description Michael Compton 2010-10-02 00:08:58 UTC 
Version:           unspecified (using KDE 4.4.5) 
OS:                Linux

When the "print screen" key is pressed and accidently held for more than a split second hundreds of instances of ksnapshot are opened. There is no way to stop this behavior and me being clumsy (it would seem) I am constantly getting my screen full of ksnapshot instances. Yes, I can work around it by removing the "print screen" key from my keyboard or remapping things to a more complexed key combination but that is just a work-a-round. It (I would think) should be painfully obvious that no one needs 100 instances of ksnapshot opening simultaneously.

Reproducible: Didn't try

Steps to Reproduce:
hold down the "print screen" key for more than an instant.

Actual Results:  
Hundreds of instances of ksnapshot are opened.

Expected Results:  
One instance of ksnapshot is opened and the rest of the repetes are ignored as it seems obvious that it has been user error to have inadvertently held the key down too long.

This is a useability issue not an actual software bug.
Comment 1 Michael Compton 2010-10-02 00:36:10 UTC 
When I say hundreds of ksnapshot instances open this is not an exaggeration and I have no way to stop it other than killing the x-server. If I log out, KDE saves all running programs so when I log back in it reopens all previously running instances of ksnapshot. I then have the same problem. If I just wait for them to stop opening at times this can take as much as a half hour. During which time I can't make any real use of the computer as a new instance of ksnapshot is always opening. By the time it stops, there is no good way to kill/close all of them as the list is too long and the "close all" button is not visible. Sitting here manually clicking the close button on "literally" at times 400 or more ksnapshot windows is time consuming and tedious at best.
Comment 2 Christoph Feck 2010-10-02 11:31:08 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 166190 ***