Confirming in Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid, with 2.30.0-0ubuntu1 I found a good workaround for that:
"sleep 0.1; gnome-screenshot --area" That delays its execution for 0.1 seconds. Greetings. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to gnome-utils in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/549935 Title: gnome-screenshot ignores "--area" if called from shortcut -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
