I search for this everywhere and looks like no one has answer this yet:

Almost every day I need to use the capture active window feature from Spectacle, but right after that i have to edit it because it lefts an empty space around it (if it is not big as a full screen). I case you have not found this issue:



Yes, that blank space is making a lot of trouble. Any way to disable it?

The distribution is which this was reproduce is Fedora 34 with Spectacle 21.04.1

What distro, and which version of Spectacle do you use?
Which image editor/viewer is this?

I can't reproduce this myself, and haven't found any bug reports on this so far.

My distro is Fedora 34, Spectacle version is default in it (which is 21.04.1)

That is the MATE image viewer, but it doesn't matter, if i open the screnshot (of my Konsole in this case) with Pinta i can see the same space. It makes trouble when i have to take a lot of screenshots and i have to post them in a Libreoffice Writer document, the look smaller in it so i have to edit them.

Let me post this information in the post, but if it is a bug i guess there is nothing to do.

claydoh wrote:What distro, and which version of Spectacle do you use?
Which image editor/viewer is this?

I can't reproduce this myself, and haven't found any bug reports on this so far.

Can't reproduce this either, but then, I only make screenshots selecting the exact location with a Rectangular Region

I have Spectacle 20.12.3.

If I use capture mode "Window Under Cursor", I get the border. Note that gwenview doesn't show it unless you start a crop operation; firefox and chromium always show it. (These may be influenced by my dark theme, using qtcurve, as the border shows with a light border.) Disabling compositing for the screenshot had no effect on the result.

I put an example on imgur:
https://imgur.com/a/DKy1rgq
On the imgur web site the border doesn't show, but if I download it from there it's got the border.

If I use the "Active Window" mode, I don't get it, so this is a workaround for me.

ulkra wrote:...
Yes, that blank space is making a lot of trouble. Any way to disable it?
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Assuming you're on X11, turn off compositing (Alt+Shift+F12), take the screenshot of "window under cursor", and then turn compositing back on again with the same keyboard shortcut.

Note that this extra space is a feature active only for "window under cursor" and not for whole screen capture or capture of a rectangular area.

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=372408