gnome-screenshot only captures wallpaper

[Gabriel Diosan]

When trying to grab a screenshot of the entire desktop, gnome screenshot only grabs the default Ubuntu wallpaper (not the one in use) and none of the panels. It does capture the mouse pointer.

I have a attached the photo that it takes. No top panel and no applications on the left hand side. In addition, if you have any windows open, it will not capture them either. No crash report is generated.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: gnome-screenshot 3.1.5-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-9.14-generic 3.0.3
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-9-generic i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Mon Aug 29 21:13:38 2011
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Alpha i386 (20110728)
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: gnome-utils
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-08-24 (4 days ago)

[Christopher Kyle Horton (christhehorton)]

I had this behavior occur while I was still testing Oneiric Beta 1 in a VirtualBox virtual machine on my Natty install. Since Natty started freezing, I installed the 9/9/2011 daily build of 11.10 alongside Natty straight on my desktop itself. I have not been able to get back into Natty since grub no longer shows on my display (hence cannot switch OS at boot), but while running Oneiric on actual hardware I have no longer been able to reproduce this bug.

[Luke Huxley (luke-huxley)]

What happens is that when alt + print screen is pressed on a window gnome-screenshot takes a picture of the relative opposite side of the screen, back-to-front, up-side-down. This means when I take a screenshot of a window that is at the top right of the screen, the png that is stored is a back-to-front and up-side-down image of the bottom left of the screen. When hitting alt + print screen under Unity it works as expected so it's somehow linked to Gnome-Shell.