You might have heard of the 15 year old bug in Ubuntu that has never been fixed (mentioned on this forum a decade ago). Essentially you can't printscreen while a menu is active.
Today, I was working with two monitors, vscode in one and the browser on the other. I right clicked on the vscode text editor to open the context menu. While opened, I tried taking a rectangular screenshot using Ctrl+Shift+PrtScr and click-and-dragged on the vscode app to select the screenshot region. Then BAM.
Not only it didn't work, but the whole UI became buggy. I couldn't click anything anymore, I tried Ctrl+Tabing sometimes and I was eventually able to click on the browser, but the rest is still unresponsive (side and top menus aren't clickable, vscode isn't clickable...)
I feel this bug is just getting worse with time, and it's kind of mindblowing it has never been fixed.
Is there any known workaround for this?
Screenshot tool
andShutter
which work perfectly well.Shutter
is great at freezing my computer if you have screen scaling on (e.g. 125%). Crashes my system quite regularly too.