Linux Mint developers are building a new screenshot utility for the Cinnamon desktop, ahead of its next major release. The home-grown tool will give users more options when taking screenshots and will “accommodate the differences between CSD (Client Side Decoration) and SSD (Server Side Decoration) windows” to provide ‘cleaner’ looking screenshots. Currently, Cinnamon rolls with the GTK-based gnome-screenshot . The tool doesn’t capture window shadows at all when taking windowed screenshots. It does, however, capture dark pixel artefacts from window shadows peeking beneath rounded corners. That isn’t pretty. Hence the new tool. It can take app window screenshots with shadows […]
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