gnome-screenshot sporadically captures green drag highlight color

[Ben Mayne]

Mint 16 Cinnamon 64bit, but the problem also happened on mint 15 cinnamon 64 bit.

When using the "select an area to grab" option of the default screenshot function, the screenshot sometimes includes the green shading that was used to highlight the selected area. I haven't been able to figure out exactly what conditions cause it, but it appears to happen several times in a row. Eventually, if I keep retrying, I can usually get a clean screenshot. When it works correctly the first time, I have not attempted to repeat to see if I can get a green shading. It happens somewhere between 25-50% of the time.

[Alex Shenfield (alex-shenfield)]

This also effects me - it is very annoying!

I haven't had this happen when capturing whole windows or the whole desktop - but I find capturing areas much more useful generally.

Example attached.

Alex

[Alex Shenfield (alex-shenfield)]

I should have added - I am also using Linux Mint 16 64bit and cinnamon.

Graphics card is an NVIDIA GF106GL [Quadro 2000]

Thanks,

Alex

[xcape77 (xcape77)]

Same problem, I can confirm this with Linux Mint 17 64 bit Cinnamon and Linux Mint 18 64 bit Cinnamon with Nvidia-driver installed.

[somJura (jura-som)]

3.5 years passed, the bug still exists.

on:
Linux Mint 17 64 bit Cinnamon and
Linux Mint 18 64 bit Cinnamon with Nvidia-driver installed

[Dane Mutters (dmutters)]

Issue persists. Is there any movement on a resolution?

[Clement Lefebvre (clementlefebvre)]

We're following this on github at https://github.com/linuxmint/gnome-screenshot/pull/8.