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 . That tool doesn’t render window shadows for windowed app screenshots on Cinnamon. It does, however, manage to capture dark pixel artefacts around the rounded corners of windows, caused by the drop shadow peeking through. It isn’t pretty. Hence the new tool. […]You're reading Cinnamon’s new screenshot tool fixes app window shadow quirks, a blog post from OMG! Ubuntu. Do not reproduce elsewhere without permission.