screen shot from the onboard keyboard layout shift state in Ubuntu 12.04 not possible

[Ernst Tremel]

I tried to make a screen shot from the onboard keyboard layout shift state in Ubuntu 12.04.
But this is not possible.
Every time I'm making the screen shot the onboard keyboard layout automatically switches back to the normal state.
Thus I only get a screen shot only from onboard keyboard normal state

[Jeremy Bícha (jbicha)]

This isn't a ubuntu-docs bug. Reassigning to onboard for now.

[marmuta (marmuta)]

Do I understand you right, are you trying to take the screen shot by pressing Onboard's "Prnt" key? If so, then releasing the shift key (or any latched modifier) is expected, this is just how Onboard works. You'd have to lock the key, i.e. press it twice to make it stick.

However, you can catch Onboard in any state by taking a delayed screen shot. Run the "Screenshot" application, set "Grab after a delay of" to 10 seconds, click "Take Screenshot", adjust Onboard to your liking and wait. The same from the command line would be "gnome-screenshot -d 10".

[Ernst Tremel (etremel)]

Thank you very much Marmuta for your advices.
Now it is possible to take any screenshots I wanted to take