Can only take screenshot of a window

[Tim Besard]

Binary package hint: gnome-utils

"gnome-screenshot" fails to take a screenshot of the entire desktop, it only takes screenshot from the active window (the behaviour which should only apply when using ALT+PRTSCR).
The problem is caused by the "gnome-screenshot" binary, which also takes a screenshot from the active window when run from the terminal.
I guess the binary takes the '-w' option (which alters gnome-screenshot's behaviour to take a screenshot of the active window) now is always active.

Hardware details:
 Pentium IV at stock speed of 3,4 gHz
 2 GB ram
 WMP54G wireless PCI adaptor, RaLink RT2561/RT61 based
 ATI Radeon X1650 Pro (Sapphire-branded)
 MSI MS-7156 (865PE-V2) motherboard

Software details:
 A fully updated Ubuntu Intrepid installation
 Ubuntu 2.6.27-3-generic #1 SMP Wed Sep 10 16:02:00 UTC 2008 i686 GNU/Linux
  gnome-utils 2.23.92-0ubuntu1

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. Also, please answer these questions:
* Is this reproducible?
* If so, what specific steps should we take to recreate this bug?

This will greatly aid us in tracking down your problem and resolving this bug.

[Tim Besard (maleadt)]

Excuse me for not being thorough enough, but yes this bug is perfectly reproducable:

Action: press ALT+PRTSCR / run "gnome-screenshot -w" from the terminal
Result: a screenshot is taken from the active window (as desirable)

Action: press PRTSCR / run "gnome-screenshot" from the terminal
Result: a screenshot is taken from the active window (NOT desirable)

[Tim Besard (maleadt)]

Excuse me for the mail spam (I hope your e-mail client groups messages ;) ), but the command of the previous strace log was obviously "gnome-screenshot -w"

Included is the strace log of "gnome-screenshot", which does not work correctly

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

that works fine for me, gnome-screenshot takes a screenshot from the whole desktop and with the -w flag it takes a window one, not confirming, are you using compiz? is this reproducible with a new user created on your system? which video card do you have and which driver are you using?

[Christoph Langner (chrissss)]

I can confirm this error. Using a up to date Ubuntu Intrepid Ibex here with all the latest updates installed. When i hit "Print" a screenshot of the current window is made. "Alt+Print" does the same. A screenshot of the whole desktop os not possible

$ dpkg -l gnome-utils
[...]
ii gnome-utils 2.24.0-0ubuntu1 GNOME desktop utilities

[Tim Besard (maleadt)]

Strangely, this bug seems to have disappeared for me. As it certainly was present though I am using also gnome-utils 2.24.0.0-ubuntu1, I'd think this bug is triggered by some other package.

[Зоран Рилак (zoran.rilak)]

If invoked with the --interactive option (or from the menus), gnome-screenshot can be set to grab the whole desktop. After that, the keyboard shortcut to grab the desktop works, but only until the shortcut to grab the window is invoked. At that point gnome-screenshot reverts to grabbing windows only.

[Зоран Рилак (zoran.rilak)]

The key /apps/gnome-screenshot/take_window_shot gets set when gnome-screensaver is invoked with --window, but remains set afterwards and is apparently consulted even if no --window is passed in subsequent invocations.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

There is a bug upstream about that on http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=553085

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package gnome-utils - 2.24.1-0ubuntu1

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gnome-utils (2.24.1-0ubuntu1) intrepid; urgency=low

  * New upstream version:
    Baobab
    - Fix bug 554996 – Patch to disable popup menu for folder that doesn't exist
    Screenshot
    - Fix bug 553085 – After doing gnome-screenshot -w (grab a window), "grab
      the entire screen" works to grab a window (lp: #269888)

 -- Sebastien Bacher <email address hidden> Mon, 20 Oct 2008 21:55:09 +0200