#1 2018-05-03 06:11:26

ainoneko

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Registered: 2016-07-03

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[SOLVED] Dark image when screenshooting a selected area

When I use xfce4-screenshooter (by pressing "PrintScreen", or by Super+Space -> "Graphics" -> "Xfce4 Screenshooter", or by running it from command line) and choose the "Select a region" option, the screen becomes dimmed, and the selected area (and the saved image) is a little brighter, but not as bright as was the original screen.

When I use "Active window" or "Entire screen" option, the image has the original brightness.

But when I use Super+Space -> "Graphics" -> "scrot Screenshooter" -> "scrot Select Area", the brightness is OK.

Is it possible to fix the "Select a region" behavior?
Or the simplest way is to add a hot-key to run "scrot -s  ..." directly?

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Dark "Select a region" screenshot:

Normal "Active window" screenshot:

Last edited by ainoneko (2018-05-03 06:33:55)

Head_on_a_Stick

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Re: [SOLVED] Dark image when screenshooting a selected area

We're supposed to have fixed this for Helium, edit ~/.config/compton.conf and add the shadow-exclude stanza from our current file:

https://github.com/BunsenLabs/bunsen-co … n.conf#L44

^ That can also be found at /usr/share/bunsen/skel/.config/compton.conf

See also https://forums.bunsenlabs.org/viewtopic.php?id=1237

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ainoneko

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Re: [SOLVED] Dark image when screenshooting a selected area

Yes, it worked. Thanks a lot!

(It was not fixed for me, because I did a fresh install of Helium, but only after installation switched to my old /home directory with older settings.
So I might have missed some more changes.)

johnraff

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Re: [SOLVED] Dark image when screenshooting a selected area

I might have missed some more changes

You probably have. Try comparing the files in /usr/share/bunsen/skel with the equivalents in ~/.

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