Bug 469492 - Spectacle is failing to take screenshots of opened applications and other instances
Summary: Spectacle is failing to take screenshots of opened applications and other ins...
Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Alias: None
Product: Spectacle
Classification: Applications
Component: General (show other bugs)
Version: 23.04.0
Platform: Arch Linux Linux
: NOR major
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Noah Davis
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Reported: 2023-05-08 14:57 UTC by Phoenix Awakened
Modified: 2024-01-13 03:45 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Description Phoenix Awakened 2023-05-08 14:57:32 UTC
SUMMARY

Today I was trying to take screenshots of my desktop's looks to share it with friend, but I was not able to take screenshots of the opened applications, as well as the application launcher and hidden icon collection, as Spectacle was only taking screenshot of the desktop only, and minimizing all the other tasks.


STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. Set the capture mode to "Rectangular Region"
2. Press the keybindings or PrtSc Key.
3. Open any application, but don't maximize them.
4. The resulted screenshot is of desktop only.
5. Tried the other capture modes, but still the same result.



OBSERVED RESULT

Screenshot of desktop only.

EXPECTED RESULT

Screenshot of all opened instances on desktop, including the elements like application launcher, tray icon's info page, etc.

SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS

Linux/KDE Plasma: CachyOS

KDE Plasma Version: 5.27.4

KDE Frameworks Version: 5.105.0

Qt Version: 5.15.9

Compositor: X11

Kernel: 6.3.0-5

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Comment 1 Nate Graham 2023-05-16 20:24:04 UTC
I'm having a hard time following your steps to reproduce. Could you rephrase them, or else take a video that shows the issue happening? Thanks!
Comment 2 Phoenix Awakened 2023-05-17 15:11:21 UTC
(In reply to Nate Graham from comment #1)
> I'm having a hard time following your steps to reproduce. Could you rephrase
> them, or else take a video that shows the issue happening? Thanks!

Yes, it does need some rephrasing !!

Actually issue is something like that spectacle is saving up the first screenshot temporarily, even though no content is pasted on clipboard.
Comment 3 Phoenix Awakened 2023-05-17 15:30:19 UTC
Sorry @NateGraham

Uploading video was not possible as it was 6.11 MB.

So I am sharing a link on which I had uploaded the video. The website says that it will expire after 6 days.

https://easyupload.io/jjzv29
Comment 4 Nate Graham 2023-05-18 16:41:35 UTC
Looks like some kind of weird graphics glitch, maybe? The fact that the overlay shows different content from what's on the screen is quite weird.
Comment 5 Phoenix Awakened 2023-05-19 06:47:31 UTC
(In reply to Nate Graham from comment #4)
> Looks like some kind of weird graphics glitch, maybe? The fact that the
> overlay shows different content from what's on the screen is quite weird.

Yes, this is what I wanted to show. 

It seems that the first screenshot is saved somewhere temporarily, despite the image is not saved in clipboard. 
I need to make 4-5 attempts in order to get the intended screenshot.
Comment 6 Noah Davis 2023-12-14 20:22:06 UTC
I'm unable to reproduce this. Is this still a problem with Spectacle 23.08 and 24.01.80 (24.02 beta)?
Comment 7 Bug Janitor Service 2023-12-29 03:46:13 UTC
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Comment 8 Bug Janitor Service 2024-01-13 03:45:31 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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