Bug 458881

Summary: When using Active Window and Window Under Cursor modes, the resulting screenshot fails to reflect the true appearance of windows using transparency and blur
Product: [Applications] Spectacle Reporter: sintaulsiamtemp
Component: GeneralAssignee: Boudhayan Gupta <me>
Status: CONFIRMED ---    
Severity: minor CC: kde, nate
Priority: NOR    
Version First Reported In: 22.08.0   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Arch Linux   
OS: Linux   
Latest Commit: Version Fixed In:
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Description sintaulsiamtemp 2022-09-08 14:23:12 UTC 
SUMMARY
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The spectacle doesn't capture background light, blur, or color when captured in window mode and the window is transparent and blurred . Which sometimes looks bad and not expected. There should be an option to capture those so we can capture windows the same as we see. 
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ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Comment 1 Nate Graham 2022-09-09 04:27:50 UTC 
Can you attach a screenshot that shows what's missing? I don't quite understand. Thanks!
Comment 2 sintaulsiamtemp 2022-09-09 04:59:03 UTC 
(In reply to Nate Graham from comment #1)
> Can you attach a screenshot that shows what's missing? I don't quite
> understand. Thanks!
captured in rectangle region mode
[url=https://postimg.cc/5Hn3QSCk][img]https://i.postimg.cc/5Hn3QSCk/Screenshot-20220909-105401.png[/img][/url]

captured in window capture mod
[url=https://postimg.cc/R6hT7J1C][img]https://i.postimg.cc/R6hT7J1C/Screenshot-20220909-105423.png[/img][/url]
Comment 3 sintaulsiamtemp 2022-09-09 05:01:17 UTC 
https://postimg.cc/gallery/JtvQx0n
Comment 4 Nate Graham 2022-09-09 17:53:26 UTC 
Got it, thanks.