[Pkg-gmagick-im-team] Bug#731148: imagemagick: spurious black rectangle in image generated by "import -window root"

[Bastien ROUCARIES]

On Tue, Dec 3, 2013 at 12:31 AM, Vincent Lefevre <vincent at vinc17.net> wrote:
> Control: retitle -1 imagemagick: "import -window root" image can show windows that are behind the other ones
>
> On 2013-12-02 14:27:01 +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
>> Package: imagemagick
>> Version: 8:6.7.7.10-6
>> Severity: normal
>>
>> I have the following shortcut in my fvwm config:
>>
>> Key r           A       CM      Exec import -window root HOME/screenshot.png
>>
>> and I took a screenshot with it. But a black rectangle appears on
>> the image (see attached file). This black rectangle corresponds to
>> the position of an xterm window that was below the other windows.
>
> Not just a black rectangle, but the screenshot can also show a window
> that is actually behind the other ones (i.e. a window that should be
> completely invisible). I've added:
>
> Key g           A       CM      Exec gnome-screenshot
>
> so that I could take a screenshot with imagemagick and another one
> with gnome-screenshot, and only the imagemagick one is buggy.

Code as not changed since the 90's so I will suspect X/X
driver/desktop in this case.

Bastien
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