[Bug 297890] Re: on photo capture cheese blanks the screen until logout

[Benjamin Bach]

I have the same problem. The white flash stays, so the screen goes all
white. Cheese doesn't freeze.. it just paints the screen all white.
Doesn't react on alt+f4, though, because the white area takes focus.
Alt+tab shows the window switcher but is unable to switch away from the
white area.

There are two workarounds:

1) Switch to a different workspace and open a terminal to do killall cheese. The picture will be saved.
2) Press [space] instead of using the mouse. The flash works fine when you don't use the mouse to click Take Photo.

Others having the same problem:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=943314
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=6321379

My webcam uses the gspca_ov519 module. My desktop effects are on default
settings. Please tell me what else you need.

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