Black rectangles showing up when using scrot -s

hoNExIWi · 2021-02-08 13:28:16

As described by someone else in this post (Black rectangles showing up when using scrot -s) before I'm experiencing the same issues with the the black rectangles when taking a screenshot using scrot -s.

scrot version: 1.5-1

*-display
                description: VGA compatible controller
                product: GP106 [GeForce GTX 1060 6GB]
                vendor: NVIDIA Corporation
                physical id: 0
                bus info: pci@0000:01:00.0
                version: a1
                width: 64 bits
                clock: 33MHz
                capabilities: vga_controller bus_master cap_list rom
                configuration: driver=nouveau latency=0
                resources: irq:140 memory:f6000000-f6ffffff memory:e0000000-efffffff memory:f0000000-f1ffffff ioport:e000(size=128) memory:c0000-dffff

.zprofile:
if [ "$(tty)" = "/dev/tty1" ]; then
  exec startx ~/.config/xorg/xinitrc
fi

I'm also runing picom alongside bspwm. Any ideas why this might be happening?

Thank you

Last edited by hoNExIWi (2021-02-08 13:28:38)

seth · 2021-02-08 14:29:17

And does it happen w/o picom as well?
If not, does it happen w/ xrender or glx backend or either?

hoNExIWi · 2021-02-09 16:34:15

It doesn't happen without picom, also doesn't happen with xrender. But then I experience some kind of screen tearing/flickering in FF.
It does happen with picom --experimental-backends as well as with glx backend though.

seth · 2021-02-09 21:21:28

You're probably also using v'sync?
scrot will take the screenshot immediately, but the compositor will update the overlay or root window only a couple of ms later.
You could run "scrot -sd1" which will delay the actual screenhot by a second (unfortunately, scrot doesn't seem to do decimal seconds like 0.2) and give the compositor time to update and remove the rectangle.
Alternatively try "scrot -sk" (see scrot --help)

hoNExIWi · 2021-02-10 20:23:10

I switched to the proprietary nvidia driver using the full composition pipeline together with picom with the glx backend and vsync. Everything works as expected now. Thank you

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#1 2021-02-08 13:28:16

Black rectangles showing up when using scrot -s

#2 2021-02-08 14:29:17

Re: Black rectangles showing up when using scrot -s

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Re: Black rectangles showing up when using scrot -s

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Re: Black rectangles showing up when using scrot -s

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