Xfce4 screenshooter gives black overlays on the took screenshots

benis · 2016-02-04 09:55:11

This is a problem I've had since Crunchbang, but nobody bothered opening an issue about it, so I thought it was just me, but a friend related the same problem after installing Bunsen as his first distro.

damo · 2016-02-04 10:30:47

This is a known problem with xfce4-screenshooter and the compositor. Either disable compton before the screenshot, or use scrot.

benis · 2016-02-04 13:29:40

Thank you!

ohnonot · 2016-02-04 16:37:42

damo wrote:

use scrot.

this.

pvsage · 2016-02-04 22:32:08

ohnonot wrote:

damo wrote:
use scrot.
this.

Agreed.

@damo: What was the reasoning behind using xfce4screenshooter in Hydrogen rather than a set of scrot scripts?

damo · 2016-02-04 23:33:30

pvsage wrote:

...
@damo: What was the reasoning behind using xfce4screenshooter in Hydrogen rather than a set of scrot scripts?

AFAICS it was because #! used it, and it has some more gui options than scrot. The compositing issue seems to have started last year sometime - I remember posting the workaround on the #! forums.

There is a new super-scrot which was mentioned hereabouts recently, which sounds like it could do the business. Then xfce4-screenshooter could be dropped I guess - but the guys are a bit busy ATM!

vasa1 · 2016-02-05 01:49:05

damo wrote:

...
There is a new super-scrot which was mentioned hereabouts recently ...

This?
post #9 in this thread: https://forums.bunsenlabs.org/viewtopic.php?id=276

But the context was storing the image in the clipboard, not about compositing, AFAICT.

tknomanzr · 2016-02-05 03:31:53

I think damo was mentioning this post https://forums.bunsenlabs.org/viewtopic.php?id=1190

johnraff · 2016-02-05 03:37:52

pvsage wrote:

What was the reasoning behind using xfce4screenshooter in Hydrogen rather than a set of scrot scripts?

Actually both xfce4-screenshooter and scrot are installed by default and available from the menu.

vasa1 · 2016-02-05 03:56:43

tknomanzr wrote:

I think damo was mentioning this post https://forums.bunsenlabs.org/viewtopic.php?id=1190

Thanks for that

pvsage · 2016-02-05 07:53:25

johnraff wrote:

Actually both xfce4-screenshooter and scrot are installed by default and available from the menu.

:8
@head_office (that would be me) should spend a bit more time using the distro, methinks. It's just LXDE is so comfy these days, I hardly feel tempted to try any other environment.

ohnonot · 2016-02-05 08:01:25

tknomanzr wrote:

I think damo was mentioning this post https://forums.bunsenlabs.org/viewtopic.php?id=1190

yep.
i'm already using it.
scrot improved. includes mouse pointer, if desired.

also very nice that the slop utility can be used seperately. might come in handy at some point:

$ slop
X=398
Y=132
W=182
H=155
G=182x155+398+132
ID=660
Cancel=false

$ slop
X=0
Y=0
W=0
H=0
G=0x0+0+0
ID=0
Cancel=true
User pressed key. Canceled selection.

wrought · 2016-02-06 22:14:51

Looks like it may have been fixed: http://git.xfce.org/apps/xfce4-screensh … 6d0815322b

maintainer needs to update

matmutant · 2016-09-06 10:56:11

Sorry to bump that old thread, but since I was still experiencing the "Grey" issue -and did not want to give up either Compositing or xfce4-screenshooter-:
Here is the workaround i found: excluding xfce4-screenshooter from what Compton will put shadows on!

~/.config/compton.conf

shadow-exclude = [ "i:e:Conky", "i:e:xfce4-screenshooter" ];

and voilà :
Before
Bunsen_ComptonDefault.png?raw=true

After
Bunsen_ComptonExclude_XfceSS.png?raw=true

No idea if it belongs to the "Good (ManufacturingCoding) Practices", yet it works

Last edited by matmutant (2016-09-06 10:57:10)

ohnonot · 2016-09-06 17:38:57

^ genius! thanks for sharing!

johnraff · 2016-09-07 05:31:49

Add this to the default BL ~/.config/compton.conf for new users?

matmutant · 2016-09-07 06:12:20

johnraff wrote:

Add this to the default BL ~/.config/compton.conf for new users?

That would be great!

I didn't see any drawbacks to this method, though we might try other targets before pushing that exclude to default BL:
from man:

 Format of a condition:

              condition = <target>:<type>[<flags>]:<pattern>

              <target> is one of "n" (window name), "i" (window class instance), and "g" (window general class)

              <type> is one of "e" (exact match), "a" (match anywhere), "s" (match from start), "w" (wildcard), and
              "p" (PCRE regular expressions, if compiled with the support).

              <flags> could be a series of flags. Currently the only defined flag is "i" (ignore case).

              <pattern> is the actual pattern string.

For now it works with "i"(window class instance):"e"(exact match)

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