Screenshotting part of the screen using imagemagick's import is hard

[Jonta]

Ubuntu 21.10 i3 4.19.1-non-git ImageMagick 6.9.11-60 Q16 x86_64 2021-01-25

Reproduce:

• Run import test-screenshot.png - Either from dmenu or gnome-terminal

What happens:

• Cursor disappears, even though I'm moving it
• (Drawing a rectangle, and saving a screenshot still works)

What should happen:

• Cursor should not disappear (and instead turn into the normal crosshair)

Didn't find "screenshot" in the man-pages for unclutter or unclutter-xfixes

[Airblader]

Are you sure this is related to unclutter-xfixes? As in: if you don't run it, everything works fine? Does this happen with other tools that grab the cursor, too?

[Jonta]

Are you sure this is related to unclutter-xfixes? As in: if you don't run it, everything works fine?

Yes. SIGTERM-ed unclutter-xfixes now, cursor stays, and turns into a crosshair when using import

Does this happen with other tools that grab the cursor, too?

Example? =)

xbanish is mentioned on the ArchWiki Unclutter page, but if that only hides the cursor during typing, it's probably not going to have an effect here

I tried with xbanish anyway, and the crosshair appears while running it

[Airblader]

I didn't mean replacements for unclutter, but replacements for import, eg other similar tools like maim. I'm trying to understand if the issue is specific to import or not.

[Jonta]

maim --select test.png shows me crosshair, both when executed from gnome-terminal and dmenu

So it seems like an import-thing

[Airblader]

Yeah, I would think so, too; import is quite an old tool, I have no idea how it works. I would generally recommend to use a more modern replacement like maim anyway, though of course you can use what you prefer. I'll leave this issue open if anyone wants to investigate this further, but I won't do so myself.

[Jonta]

import was just the only one I've ever used

I'll probably switch over to maim, alias maim --select to something else for less typing, and then get dmenu to read aliases, where this thread seems helpful: https://askubuntu.com/questions/1135073/dmenu-doesnt-recognise-aliases

[rdiaz02]

For the record: I was having the exact same problem with import, that I could trace to unclutter. Switched to maim -s as suggested, and things are fine now.