grimblast area screenshots freeze and crash Hyprland

[RoootTheFox]

Program

grimblast

Maintainers of the program

fufexan, Misterio77

Bug or Regression?

Regression

Description

One of the more recent(-ish) updates to grimblast cause Hyprland to crash when using the area select mode.
It freezes for a couple (~5-ish) seconds, then crashes.

Only happens sometimes (rather randomly), isn't very consistent to reproduce, and seems to be related(??) to the hypr-dynamic-cursors plugin - setting GRIMBLAST_HIDE_CURSOR=0 (or having hypr-dynamic-cursors disabled) seems to have fixed the issue, haven't gotten a crash since.

Maybe automatically disable the hacky cursor hiding workaround when the hypr-dynamic-cursors plugin is loaded?

How to reproduce

Not sure honestly, I guess having the hypr-dynamic-cursors plugin installed and repeatedly trying to grimblast copy area until it crashes?

Hyprland crash reports, program logs, images, videos

I am honestly not sure how, but it crashes so hard that Hyprland can't finish writing its crash reports...

(all of these are somehow capped at 512 bytes, none contain useful information; attaching them nonetheless)
hyprlandCrashReport8106.txt
hyprlandCrashReport7519.txt
hyprlandCrashReport73393.txt
hyprlandCrashReport7127.txt
hyprlandCrashReport68474.txt
hyprlandCrashReport64984.txt
hyprlandCrashReport58572.txt
hyprlandCrashReport749.txt

[fufexan]

Try setting the environment variable GRIMBLAST_HIDE_CURSOR=0.

Due to this long-standing issue, this PR was implemented as a workaround until a fix is made in hyprpicker. Or until we can switch to some other program to freeze the screen.

Related issues:

• grimblast: Strange mouse movement on screenshot #141
• [grimblast] Workspace switching on area screenshot #142