JDK-8150954 : Taking screenshots on x11 composite desktop produce wrong result
  • Type: Bug
  • Component: client-libs
  • Sub-Component: java.awt
  • Affected Version: 7,8,9
  • Priority: P4
  • Status: Resolved
  • Resolution: Fixed
  • OS: linux
  • Submitted: 2016-03-01
  • Updated: 2019-01-14
  • Resolved: 2016-07-11
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Description
The Robot code that grabs the content of the screen uses the default root window. On composite desktop the root window does not contain the final composited desktop, so screenshots taken using this window will generally have black areas instead of transparent or translucent ones, as is demonstrated on the attached screenshots.

The proposed solution is to determine if the desktop is composited or not, and then get a reference to the correct window id, which is either the root window or the compositor owned one.

This bug is quite likely related to:

https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-7043455

I believe that the original fix that was backed out by 7043455 because it was trying to acquire the composite window, which is wrong since the XCompositeGetOverlayWindow would always return a valid window id.

The proposed fix uses an Atom to detect if the window manager is a composite wm:

https://specifications.freedesktop.org/wm-spec/1.4/ar01s08.html
Comments
Hi Viktor, I apologise for the delay, it's been quite busy lately. The patch was discussed on awt-dev mailing list already: http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/awt-dev/2016-March/010742.html I was asked to add support for a system property to choose between GTK and X11 implementation, is this still the case? I should be able to have a patch ready very quickly, it's right on top in my priority queue now.
27-05-2016

Mario, could you submit this fix on review at openjdk mailing list? Thx.
26-05-2016

Proposed fix for JDK9: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~neugens/8150954/webrev.02/
08-03-2016

Minimal test case
01-03-2016

Proposed patch: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~neugens/8150954/
01-03-2016

Hi Sergey, Sorry, I was sidetracked in the middle of filing this bug report, this bug report is for OpenJDK 8 and 7, I didn't try on 6 yet.
01-03-2016

Is the problem can be reproduced on jdk9? Implementation was changed to use gtk.
01-03-2016