Bug 401451

Summary:	Pressing the 'Super' (a.k.a. Windows) key while in rectangle-select mode will lock the user in the 'select region' mode.
Product:	[Applications] Spectacle	Reporter:	Peter M <irres.genie>
Component:	General	Assignee:	Boudhayan Gupta <me>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	grave	CC:	nate
Priority:	NOR
Version:	18.08.3
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Arch Linux
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:
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Description Peter M 2018-11-27 00:14:58 UTC

SUMMARY
Pressing the 'Super' (a.k.a. Windows) key while in rectangle-select mode will lock the user in the 'select region' mode. Pressing escape or enter will not have an effect

STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. Press Print key
2. Select 'Rectangular region' -> Take a new screenshot
3. Press the Super key

OBSERVED RESULT
The program is locked in the region-selection mode. It remains responsive to mouse actions, however keyboard inputs are ignored. Since neither escape not enter terminate the selection process, the system is effectively locked. The behavior is reproducable on my system. Fiddling with Ctrl+Alt+[F-key] seems to crash X when returning to the X session the bug was produced in. I also observed an uncalled system reboot.

EXPECTED RESULT
Anything from 'nothing' to 'the start menu opens'. Personally, I tried to take a screenshot of my start menu.


SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Linux/KDE Plasma: Antergos/arch Kernel 4.19.2-arch1-1-ARCH 
KDE Plasma Version: 5.14.3
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.52.0
Qt Version: 5.11.2

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
n.a.

Comment 1 Nate Graham 2018-11-27 20:55:54 UTC

You can draw a box and double-click in it to escape when this happens.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 374009 ***