GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 323532
acquire screenshot does not work on dualhead (two screens)
Last modified: 2018-05-24 11:40:50 UTC
Distribution/Version: Fedora Core 4 I have a dualhead setup (no Xinerama, just two screens - :0.0 and :0.1), and I want to get a screenshot of the window displayed on the other screen than GIMP runs on (let's say Gimp runs on :0.0, and window to be grabbed is on :0.1). I choose "File -> Acquire -> Screen shot" from the main menu, the Grab dialog pops up. I choose "a single window", "Select window after _3_ seconds delay", click on "Grab" button, move the cursor to the opposite screen, wait for the cursor shape change (actually, the cursor disappears), and click to the window I want to grab. The actual image grabbed contain portions of the screen Gimp runs on (:0.0) instead of the screenshot of the whole window on the opposite screen. Also the dimensions of the screenshot are different than expected (I suspect that the dimensions are those of the window on the :0.0 screen in which the cursor would be if it had the same coordinates as it has on the :0.1 screen). I run Fedora Core 4 on AMD64.
That's simply not supported. Not saying that it would be impossible to implement but for now the screenshot is taken on the screen, the plug-in dialog is shown on. Feel free to provide a patch to the screenshot plug-ins that changes this behaviour.
It shouldn't be too difficult to get this implemented. Adding the gnome-love keyword.
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