Bug 508682

Summary:	Screenshot resolution/quality is wrong/bad when display scaling is below 100%
Product:	[Applications] Spectacle	Reporter:	Shaun Roselt <shaunroselt>
Component:	General	Assignee:	Noah Davis <noahadvs>
Status:	RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Severity:	minor	CC:	kde, kdedev, nate
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	6.4.4
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	CachyOS
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed/Implemented In:
Sentry Crash Report:

Description Shaun Roselt 2025-08-24 17:21:29 UTC

SUMMARY

I have my display scaling set to 50% on a 1080p screen. So essentially it's rendering it as a 4K screen.

Everything is crisp and clear. I can read text perfectly, but then when I take a screenshot with Spectacle, the resulting screenshot resolution is 1080p and not 4K. And the quality on the screenshot is horrible.

As an example, on my actual display, I can read text perfectly without any issues, but then on the screenshot, it's extremely pixelated.

I have my Image Saving settings in Spectacle set to be PNG. So I would assume quality would be on parr with what I'm seeing, but it's much worse on the screenshot than what it actually is on my screen.


STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1.  Plug in a 1080p 27" Monitor
2.  Set Scale to 50%
3.  Set Font Size to 23pt
4. Take a screenshot

OBSERVED RESULT
Screenshot's quality is much worse than what I'm seeing on my screen.


EXPECTED RESULT
Screenshot's quality to be on parr with what I'm seeing on my screen.


SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Operating System: CachyOS Linux 
KDE Plasma Version: 6.4.4
KDE Frameworks Version: 6.17.0
Qt Version: 6.9.1
Kernel Version: 6.16.2-2-cachyos (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: Wayland
Processors: 16 × AMD Ryzen 7 8845HS w/ Radeon 780M Graphics
Memory: 64 GiB of RAM (62.1 GiB usable)
Graphics Processor 1: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Laptop GPU
Graphics Processor 2: AMD Radeon 780M Graphics

Comment 1 TraceyC 2025-08-26 20:58:51 UTC

I can't reproduce this with the current version of Spectacle. When I open the resulting screenshot, it's crisp at 100% zoom.

Can you attach a screenshot taken from your system so we can see the details of the file? Thanks.

Comment 2 Bug Janitor Service 2025-09-10 03:48:26 UTC

🐛🧹 ⚠️ This bug has been in NEEDSINFO status with no change for at least 15 days. Please provide the requested information, then set the bug status to REPORTED. If there is no change for at least 30 days, it will be automatically closed as RESOLVED WORKSFORME.

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Comment 3 Bug Janitor Service 2025-09-25 03:46:56 UTC

🐛🧹 This bug has been in NEEDSINFO status with no change for at least 30 days. Closing as RESOLVED WORKSFORME.