issues with spectacle screen capture

[ProPAAS DBA]

Hi All;


I see this fairly often, I use spectacle to grap screenshots of grapgs 
for a report I create weekly. Often after several screen grabs I click 
"take new screenshot" and I get the cursor to draw a rectangle but I 
cannot get it to go away with enter or esc so I end up hard powering off 
the laptop which sometimes causes other havoc


thoughts?

[Steven Haigh]

On 2017-01-24 12:12, ProPAAS DBA wrote:
>  Hi All;
>  
>  
>  I see this fairly often, I use spectacle to grap screenshots of grapgs
>  for a report I create weekly. Often after several screen grabs I click
>  "take new screenshot" and I get the cursor to draw a rectangle but I
>  cannot get it to go away with enter or esc so I end up hard powering
>  off the laptop which sometimes causes other havoc
>  
>  
>  thoughts? 
At the risk of being unhelpful, it works here :\

I'm running a few systems - most either on the inbuild intel CPU/GPU and 
one with an nVidia card using the binary driver. Not sure if its 
graphics driver related - or something else?

-- 
Steven Haigh

Email: netwiz(a)crc.id.au
Web: https://www.crc.id.au
Phone: [phone]

[Reindl Harald]

Am 24.01.2017 um 02:12 schrieb ProPAAS DBA:
>  Hi All;
>
>  I see this fairly often, I use spectacle to grap screenshots of grapgs
>  for a report I create weekly. Often after several screen grabs I click
>  "take new screenshot" and I get the cursor to draw a rectangle but I
>  cannot get it to go away with enter or esc so I end up hard powering off
>  the laptop which sometimes causes other havoc
>
>  thoughts? 
CTRL + ALT + ESC on Unix systems for decades changes the mousepointer to 
a skull and every window you click get SIGTERM - at least a try worth 
instead hard power off

also i don't buy that a scrennshot app locks everything so that CTRL + 
ALT + F2-F6 don't work so that you can log intoa VT and at least 
graceful reboot