Mouse cursor vanishes when screenshot hot key is pressed
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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| gnome-screenshot (Ubuntu) |
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Bug Description
When attempting to take a screenshot, pressing the hotkey for the area-selection feature, the mouse cursor changes into a crosshair and the user is able to select an area for the screenshot.
The problem occurs if the user is attempting to take a screenshot of something like a modal window in a browser, or a dropdown window that requires the mouse cursor to be in a certain place or a mouse button to be pressed. If a user tries to take a screenshot of something like that, the mouse 'goes away', and the modal changes, and the dropdown retracts, or otherwise 'goes away'.
It's impossible to use gnome-screenshot to take a screenshot of anything that requires the mouse be present for the situation to occur.
In the same circumstance on macos/osx, the mouse cursor doesnt 'go away' - a user could, for example, click and drag a selection box across the desktop, and while holding down the mouse button so that selection box stays alive, press the screenshot hotkey, and macos/osx would retain the mouse button press, and the mouse cursor position such that it is possible to take a screenshot of the selection box.
That functionality in gnome-screenshot would be supremely useful!
Ubuntu 19.04 / gnome-screenshot 3.30.0-2ubuntu1
