Esc does not close flameshot gui

[mmahmoudian]

Flameshot version
Flameshot v0.8.5 (AppImage)
Compiled with Qt 5.12.8

Describe the bug
When any application tries to take over the screen, there will be almost no way to close Flameshot (other than pressing the X button). This happened to me during the following scenarios:

1. I was in the waiting room of a zoom call and I was taking a screenshot with Flameshot that they let me in the Zoom call and then there was no way to close Flameshot (Esc was not working)
2. While taking a screenshot I pressed AltTab accidentally and then the Esc was non functional. (This scenario was much easier to repeat)

To Reproduce

1. flameshot gui
2. press AltTab (or what ever shortcut you use to switch windows
3. press Esc to close

Expected behavior
Esc works as long as flameshot gui is open.

System Information
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 18.04.5 LTS (Ubuntu Budgie)
DE: Budgie
Release: 18.04
Codename: bionic
Display server protocol: X11

[mmahmoudian]

@ZetaoYang Are you sure it does not behave in the same way as in Windows? Because the AltTab works similarly in Windows.

[holazt]

@mmahmoudian CLI optionflameshot gui only works on Linux currently.

[borgmanJeremy]

You can trigger the bug without using the CLI. If you start taking a screenshot from the tray icon and alt tab it will appear the system is frozen and you will need to drop to tty to kill flameshot.

I think the fix is to minimize or close an active edit if flameshot looses screen focus.

[holazt]

You can trigger the bug without using the CLI. If you start taking a screenshot from the tray icon and alt tab it will appear the system is frozen and you will need to drop to tty to kill flameshot.

I think the fix is to minimize or close an active edit if flameshot looses screen focus.

On Windows, this bug will not appear.

[mmahmoudian]

@ZetaoYang

@mmahmoudian CLI optionflameshot gui only works on Linux currently.

Yes, I didn't know how to refer to the UI that opens when user wants to take screenshot, so I thought the most accurate way would be to write the command to clarify what do I mean.

I think we should come up with some sort of uniform terminology for different things in Flameshot to avoid confusion.

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@borgmanJeremy

I think the fix is to minimize or close an active edit if flameshot looses screen focus.

I think minimizing is a good option as it gives the user the freedom to return to the screenshot process and do the annotations they need.

[avinashrocks1990]

Flameshot GUI won't close on pressing escape.
To Reproduce

Press F12 to Launch Yakuake (drop down terminal)
flameshot gui
press Esc to close

Expected behavior
Esc works as long as flameshot gui is open.

System Information
Distributor ID: Manjaro
Description: Manjaro Unstable
DE: KDE Plasma
Release: 5.20.4

Display server protocol: X11

[mmahmoudian]

@avinashrocks1990 Please also report/confirm the following:

1. your Flameshot version
2. The way you have installed Flameshot (AppImage, AUR, pacman, snap, compile from source, ...)

[avinashrocks1990]

Flameshot 0.8.5-1
I have installed it using pacman(official repo), i have also tried flameshot-git(AUR).