Bug 445859

Summary:	Spectacle Rectangle Screenshot Shortcut ignores include mouse pointer
Product:	[Applications] Spectacle	Reporter:	saif1988
Component:	General	Assignee:	Boudhayan Gupta <me>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	normal	CC:	bharadwaj.raju777, kde, nate
Priority:	NOR
Version:	21.08.3
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Other
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:

Description saif1988 2021-11-21 12:00:30 UTC

SUMMARY
When using Spectacle to take rectangular area screenshot with a KEYBOARD SHORTCUT, the mouse pointer appears on the screenshot even if it was disabled.

STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. Configure a shortcut to take a rectangular area screenshot
2. Disable in Spectacle "Include mouse Pointer"
3. Use keyboard shortcut to trigger the area screenshot

OBSERVED RESULT
The mouse pointer appears in the frozen screen!!!

EXPECTED RESULT
Should not!!!


Operating System: EndeavourOS
KDE Plasma Version: 5.23.3
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.88.0
Qt Version: 5.15.2
Kernel Version: 5.15.3-arch1-1 (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: X11
Processors: 12 × Intel® Core™ i7-8750H CPU @ 2.20GHz
Memory: 31,2 GiB of RAM
Graphics Processor: Mesa Intel® UHD Graphics 630

Comment 1 saif1988 2021-11-21 12:01:12 UTC

To support the bug report, it seems this issue also happens to other users: https://www.reddit.com/r/kde/comments/i1r4uq/help_spectacle_captures_mouse_pointer_in/

Comment 2 Bharadwaj Raju 2021-11-24 16:37:15 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 442074 ***

Comment 3 Nate Graham 2021-12-01 17:29:28 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 392057 ***