gnome-screenshot always only captures the "arrow" mouse pointer icon

[Victor Zamanian]

Binary package hint: gnome-utils

When I take a screenshot using gnome-screenshot, I usually like to include the mouse pointer. This is because I usually take screenshots only when reporting bugs, so I like the interaction to be depicted just as I see it when I'm experiencing it.

The problem: For example, if I take a screenshot of my browser and I hover the mouse pointer over a link so that the mouse pointer icon changes from an "arrow" to a "clicking hand", the mouse pointer still shows up as the "arrow" icon in the final screenshot.

This example is in fact what actually happened, and the attached screenshot shows the final image.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
Package: gnome-screenshot 2.31.1-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-24.42-generic 2.6.35.8
Uname: Linux 2.6.35-24-generic i686
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Architecture: i386
Date: Thu Dec 16 03:13:35 2010
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release i386 (20101007)
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: gnome-utils

[Robert Roth (evfool)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. The issue you are reporting is an upstream one and it would be nice if somebody having it could send the bug to the developers of the software by following the instructions at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/Upstream/GNOME. If you have done so, please tell us the number of the upstream bug (or the link), so we can add a bugwatch that will inform us about its status. Thanks in advance.

[Victor Zamanian (victorz)]

Hmm, okay. I'm around 90% sure that the following upstream bug describes what I was trying to report.

Bug 599491: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=599491

[Victor Zamanian (victorz)]

What does it mean that the upstream bug is invalid?

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

if you click on the URL you will see they marked it as duplicate of another bug

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