Bug 423673

Summary:	Rectangular region - highlighted area doesn't appear
Product:	[Applications] Spectacle	Reporter:	Corrado Mella <corrado.mella>
Component:	General	Assignee:	Boudhayan Gupta <me>
Status:	RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Severity:	major	CC:	corrado.mella, kde, nate
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	17.12.3
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Kubuntu
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed/Implemented In:
Sentry Crash Report:

Description Corrado Mella 2020-06-29 21:17:43 UTC

SUMMARY

When choosing the "Rectangular Region" Capture Mode Area, (regardless of "on click" activated or not), when dragging the mouse the area is not visible.
Any change in the "Rectangular Region" settings in the program preferences does not fix the problem.

STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. Setup Spectacle as above
2. Click, hold and start dragging
3. Release the click

OBSERVED RESULT
Mouse cursor correctly changes shape to a "+" while dragging.
No area is visibly highlighted.
On release, the mouse cursor changes shape to an open hand where the captured region should be, to corner drag pointer where the upper left / lower right corner of the selection should be, to a closed fist when clicking inside where the selection should be to drag it.
Captured area is successfully available in the program after double click / "Enter" keypress.

EXPECTED RESULT
As above, but with visible highlighted area.


SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
KDE Plasma Version: 5.12.9
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.47.0
Qt Version: 5.9.5
Kernel Version: 5.3.0-42-generic

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Triple screen setup, two 24" on 2x DVI from PCI Express nVidia card, third screeen on VGA from onboard port on Intel 6 Series / C200 chipset.
On fully up to date Kubuntu 18.40 LTS with backports repo enabled, nouveau drivers for the NnVidia card, i915 for the onboard Intel chipset.
Compositor enabled on OpenGL 3.1 with the inbuilt helper for KSnapshot *disabled* to avoid conflicts. Enabling it doesn't change anything.

Comment 1 Nate Graham 2020-07-02 00:50:03 UTC

You're using a version of Spectacle that's two and a half years old which is no longer supported, and the code for rectangular region mode has been completely rewritten since then to solve many bugs such as this one. I strongly suspect that it is already fixed in a later version, but it would be lovely if you could verify. To do this, you would probably have to upgrade to Kubuntu 20.04, or get a newer version of Spectacle from Snap, Flatpak, or by building it from source.

Comment 2 Bug Janitor Service 2020-07-17 04:33:10 UTC

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Comment 3 Bug Janitor Service 2020-08-01 04:33:11 UTC

This bug has been in NEEDSINFO status with no change for at least
30 days. The bug is now closed as RESOLVED > WORKSFORME
due to lack of needed information.

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