Bug 277416

Summary:	"Screenshot" desktop effect would break ksnapshot's behavior
Product:	[Applications] ksnapshot	Reporter:	Franklin Weng <franklin>
Component:	general	Assignee:	Richard Moore <rich>
Status:	RESOLVED UNMAINTAINED
Severity:	normal	CC:	adaptee, balcaen.john, foss.linux, giulio.genovese, skierpage
Priority:	NOR
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Mageia RPMs
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:

Description Franklin Weng 2011-07-09 12:12:49 UTC

Version:           unspecified (using KDE 4.6.3) 
OS:                Linux

I first reported this problem in mageia's bugzilla:

https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1442

Ksnapshot would only grab the whole screen without any delay.  Actually it would keep the last snapshot no matter how many times I grabbed.

Then we found that ksnapshot would work normally if and only if we disabled "Screenshot" desktop effect.

Please reference the original bug report.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Turn on the Screenshot desktop effect.
2. Use ksnapshot and set it to delay 3 seconds and grab the window under mouse cursor

Actual Results:  
It gave me the whole screen.  And even if I changed the window position and tried again, it still gave me the first screenshot.

Expected Results:  
It should only grab the window under the mouse cursor.

I tried it on Mageia 1.

Comment 1 Jekyll Wu 2012-03-09 08:08:38 UTC

Works for me when using KDE SC 4.8.1.

Comment 2 Jekyll Wu 2012-03-09 08:13:17 UTC

*** Bug 272664 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 3 Jekyll Wu 2012-03-09 08:22:47 UTC

*** Bug 230767 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 4 skierpage 2017-05-26 23:54:00 UTC

This happens for me in Fedora 25 with KSnapshot 0.8.2 using KDE Development Platform 4.14.30. I see old comments from 2012 that this is a problem with Intel graphics, and I'm using an Intel i5-6300U CPU, Open GL information says "Mesa DRI Intel(R) HD Graphics 520 (Skylake GT2)."

I do not see any "Screenshot" in the "Desktop Effect" System Settings Module but I have various other effects enabled.

WORKAROUND: I just realized I have a KDE binary called `spectacle` which looks like KSnapshot but works much better. Stop using KSnapshot in KDE 5 :-)

Comment 5 Andrew Crouthamel 2018-09-04 04:18:09 UTC

Hello! Sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but this project has been unmaintained for many years and I will be closing this bug. Spectacle is the replacement for ksnapshot now. Please test again and file a new bug for Spectacle if you still have issues. Thank you!