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xfce4-screenshooter doesn't take into account dual screen configuration
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RESOLVED: MOVED
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Xfce4-screenshooter
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Description Jean-Philippe Fleury 2012-01-29 23:44:57 CET
I have an external monitor (1280x1024) attached to my laptop (1440x900). With xfce4-settings-editor, I set the position (X, Y) of each display as the following:

            |¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯|
            |             |
   Unused   |      2      |
            |_____________|
|¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯|
|           |
|     1     |    Unused
|           |
|___________|

The monitor 1 (external) is set to (0, 900) and the monitor 2 (laptop) is set to (1280, 0).

When I choose the region "Entire screen", xfce4-screenshooter takes a screenshot of all regions (both minotors and both unused spaces).

I would expect to have a screenshot only of the current active monitor.

More information:

- video card: nVidia GeForce 8600M GT
- driver: nouveau
- OS: Xubuntu 11.10
Comment 1 Landry Breuil editbugs 2014-12-23 23:55:02 CET
*** Bug 10692 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 2 Peter S 2017-10-07 02:30:49 CEST
It's now late 2017, and we still can't take a screenshot of the active monitor.  Is there any way to vote this up?
Comment 3 Andre Miranda editbugs 2017-10-10 04:52:41 CEST
@Peter S, absolutely, with a patch :-)

Jokes apart, this feature shouldn't be too hard to implement, but I'll be very busy with Thunar until we release 4.14.
Comment 4 lockywolf 2019-05-22 15:41:08 CEST
I'd vote for this too.

I attach how xfce4-screenshooter takes the screenshot of my configuration, which only has one unused space (can you guess from the screenshot where it is?

I'd expect to have this area either transparent (in, say, png), or black, for jpegs. (Generally, a checkbox would be very nice to have.)

Now the smaller screen is stretched to fit the width of the bigger one.
Comment 5 lockywolf 2019-05-22 15:43:38 CEST
Created attachment 8570 
Two monitrors, 1920x1080/60dpi and 1366x768/112dpi. The (0,0) is at the bottom left of the bigger one, and on the top left of the smaller one.
Comment 6 Andre Miranda editbugs 2019-05-24 04:46:10 CEST
(In reply to lockywolf from comment #4)
> I'd expect to have this area either transparent (in, say, png), or black,
> for jpegs. (Generally, a checkbox would be very nice to have.)
Which screenshooter version are you using? I used to see this corruption in 1.8.x, with recent versions the extra space is plain black. It could also be related to video drivers, please tell me which one you use.
Comment 7 Git Bot editbugs 2020-05-24 23:55:59 CEST
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Bug #8410

Reported by:
Jean-Philippe Fleury
Reported on: 2012-01-29
Last modified on: 2020-05-24
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Assignee:
Jérôme Guelfucci
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