Screenshot contains selected area highlight

[e633]

mate-utils_1.8.1-0+rebecca_amd64
If i choose "select area to grab" i almost constantly get an annoying green overlay which is what i just used to highlight the area that i wanted to grab.
See attached example.
I'm using Mint MATE x64 17.1, software compositing window manager enabled, compiz disabled, VGA AMD radeon 6370M, drivers "xserver-xorg-video-ati" 7.3.0-1-ubuntu3.1, kernel 3.13.0-37-generic x86_64.
I remember this happening since mint 13 or so.

[Martin Wimpress  (flexiondotorg)]

I can only reproduce this issue when running Compiz.

If Marco is used, with or without it's compositor enable, take screen grabs of of area works correctly. This was tested on Ubuntu MATE 14.04.1.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[deutrino (deutrino)]

Reproduced on Mint 17.2 running Cinnamon. I get the blue overlay which tells me what area is highlighted from time to time.

[deutrino (deutrino)]

Evidently I need to make a separate comment to attach the proper screenshot, when the bug didn't occur.

[Enno Borgsteede (ennoborg)]

I see this in Mint 17.3 Cinnamon too.

[Dan Connolly (connolly)]

Is this different from #743176?

I considered marking it as a duplicate, but there seems to be more recent development work here.

[e633 (e633)]

I'd say #743176 is the same bug, only worse.

[Julian Haagsma (jhaagsma)]

After going through the trouble of building the latest gnome-screenshot, I've discovered this bug is still definitely present, in gnome-screenshot 3.26.1 on Ubuntu 16.04.4

[Drew (dnut)]

I have observed the same behavior with version 3.30.0. I have a three monitors, and I observe it on all but one monitor. Monitor 1 does not have the problem, but 2 and 3 do. 3 is my primary monitor.

[Matthias Weiler (matthias-weiler)]

@Drew: This issue is closed, so you may want to create a new one as it's most likely a different cause. There is an upstream issue: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-screenshot/issues/56

[James Yeoman (james-yeoman)]

It says fix released for ubuntu, but I'm on ubuntu 18.04 and I'm still having this issue

[James Yeoman (james-yeoman)]

Is there any chance of a backport?

[Norbert (nrbrtx)]

Can you reproduce this bug with newer version of Ubuntu MATE?