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gnome-utils package

gnome-screenshot fails to work with multiple monitors

Bug #16894 reported by Stevie Beth Mhaol
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gnome-utils
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gnome-utils (Ubuntu)
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Ubuntu Desktop Bugs

Bug Description

The gnome-screenshot utility doesn't handle multiple monitors
(using Ximerama) correctly. It creates a .png of the correct
dimensions, but only captures the contents of a single
montior, and some of the other. This is what it captured of
my desktop:
http://diamond.nonado.net/misc/gnome-screenshot-badness.png

here's what my desktop really looks like:
http://diamond.nonado.net/misc/real.png

I have an asymetric setup, with 1024x768 on the left monitor,
and 1280x1024 on the right montior (a 17" crt and 17" lcd
respectively). The gfx card is a geforce 6600GT, using the
nvidia binary drivers.

This is an amd64 machine, running hoary, uptodate as of today.

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=166485: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=166485

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

There is bug upsream about this: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=166485

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Matthew Forrester (fozz) wrote :

There's a fix to this in Debian Stable (and other versions I think, as its
always worked on other debian versions)

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

The Ubuntu package is based on the Debian one and there is no patch for that feature

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Daniel Holbach (dholbach) wrote :

Maybe the difference between Debian and Ubuntu is some change wrt to xorg?

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

Do you have the issue with Ubuntu 5.10? That could be a Build-Depends difference
with Debian...

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Stevie Beth Mhaol (kormat) wrote :

(In reply to comment #5)
> Do you have the issue with Ubuntu 5.10? That could be a Build-Depends difference
> with Debian...

Sorry for the delay, took me ages to get a chance to install breezy on this machine.
Anyway, short answer is, same bug still exists. Here's a fresh screenshot, from
breezy:
http://diamond.nonado.net/misc/pics/gnome-screenshot-badness-breezy.png

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Daniel Holbach (dholbach) wrote :

added the comments to the upstream bug.

Sebastien Bacher (seb128)
Changed in gnome-utils:
status: Unconfirmed → Confirmed
Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater)
Changed in gnome-utils:
status: Unconfirmed → Confirmed
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Matthew Carroll (m-tthew) wrote :

Just to confirm, this is still present in 6.06 LTS (Gnome 2.14.2). I have added a comment to the upstream bug report. Maybe someone from the Ubuntu team feels like patching with code from the GIMP? ;-)

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Kyle Lear (space-bee) wrote :

This bug is still present in 6.06, current screenshot - http://www.blueshout.com/screenshot.png

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Joanmarie (joanmarie-diggs-deactivatedaccount) wrote :

It is also still present in Edgy. Screenshot attached.

Sebastien Bacher (seb128)
Changed in gnome-utils:
assignee: seb128 → desktop-bugs
status: Unconfirmed → Confirmed
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Christof Krüger (christofkr) wrote :

I can confirm it with edgy beta. There's another upstream bug open: #352379

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Christof Krüger (christofkr) wrote :

I'm not experiencing this bug any more with my current ubuntu feisty installation. But then again, I changed my graphics card from mga550 to nvidia fx5200 with proprietary drivers since I last tested.

Can someone else confirm either way?

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Richard Viney (richard-viney) wrote :

I can confirm this on Ubuntu Feisty 7.04 with a standard 2 monitor setup. Only the leftmost monitor makes it into the final screenshot. I'm using the proprietary NVIDIA drivers version 100.14.11 on a GeForce 8600 GTS.

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Tesla (teesla) wrote :

confirmed on 7.10
p.s. its just a shame!

Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)
Changed in gnome-utils:
status: Confirmed → Triaged
Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater)
Changed in gnome-utils:
status: Confirmed → Incomplete
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Anthony Noto (angusthefuzz) wrote :

This bug is no longer an issue in 8.10 or 8.04.1. I use dual monitors with nvidia binary driver version 177. I am attaching a screenshot as proof and marking this bug Fix Released.

Changed in gnome-utils:
status: Triaged → Fix Released
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Anthony Noto (angusthefuzz) wrote :
Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater)
Changed in gnome-utils:
status: Incomplete → Fix Released
Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater)
Changed in gnome-utils:
importance: Unknown → Medium
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