Print Screen does not capture tooltips

[Marek Safar]

Binary package hint: gnome

When pressing PrintScreen the captured screen does not include tooltip windows it contains only grey box instead or nothing at the same place where the tooltip was.

I tried tooltip in gedit (tool-bars, and tab) and I tried applets tooltip.

Note: I am not using 3D desktop

[Mauricio Peñaloza S. (elkan76)]

I've tried to reproduce the bug, but I can't do it
I don't have 3D desktop and the screen capture works perfect with many windows opened (tested on Ati X200 Radeon with non-propietary drivers).
We don't know about their video card or amount of memory.

[Marek Safar (marek-safar)]

I am using nvidia binary driver, 2 GB RAM, dunno about GPU memory

[KenSentMe (jeroen-vandenieuwenhof)]

Could you please attach a screenshot with your problem so people can see what goes wrong?

[Marek Safar (marek-safar)]

The screenshot shows the issue. However, I was lucky this time because usually the screenshot does not capture the tooltip at all. The screen then looks like there was no tooltip.

[David Mills (d-mills)]

Switching the package to one that corresponds more

[Manuel Muradás (dieresys)]

The problem is when you press PrintScreen, a command is executed ('gnome-screenshot'). When this command is invoked, is like the control where the mouse pointer is over looses focus, and the tooltip disappear.
A workaround to take screenshots with tooltips is to invoke gnome-screenshot with delay. The delay gives you time to make the tooltip reappears. A way to do this is going to "Applications/Accessories/Take Screenshot" and setting some delay.

Is there any way to make PrintScreen key calls 'gnome-screenshot' in a sort of background to avoid losing focus?

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

seems similar to bug 93377