From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0) Description of problem: Bad: Indeed, the screenshot does not work correctly when the main menu (red hat on the left and at the bottom of the Desktop) is open. Good: When the main menu is not open the screen shot work correctly. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): gnome-panel-2.2.2.1-4 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Open a gnome session under any kinf of user. 2.click on the main menu (red hat on the left and at the bottom of the Desktop ) 3.Press the shortcut "Print Screen" which should launch the gnome- panel-screenshot application. Actual Results: Nothing happens. In any case the gnome-panel- screenshot application does appear. Expected Results: The gnome-panel-screenshot application should be launched. Additional info:
This is unfortunate, but expected. Basically, the main menu grabs the keyboard when it pops up preventing the window manager from seeing the printscreen keypress. The main menu needs to grab the keyboard so that you can navigate the menus with the keyboard. To take a screenshot like this you'll need to launch gnome-panel-screenshot with a timer. E.g. go to "Run Application" and enter "gnome-panel-screenshot --delay 5", hit return, open the main menu and after 5 seconds the screenshot will be taken. We may be able to make the main menu itself see the printscreen key press and take a screenshot, but this wouldn't work for all menus (e.g. the menus in an application). If we make this enhancement, we'll do it in upstream GNOME, however.
Okay, lets track this upstream now: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=144907
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