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by masklinn 4270 days ago
From TFA

> import doesn't play nicely with compositors; making effects like transparent windows not render properly in the screenshot. maim, like scrot, uses imlib2 which isn't inflicted with this problem.

> maim can actually take screenshots with your cursor included in them! It does this using the XFixes extension. I don't think there's any other screenshooters that do this.

> For those of you with multiple monitors, maim is aware of which pixels are visible or not and will make off-screen pixels that are in screenshots black and transparent. Import and scrot both mindlessly include off-screen pixel data in their screenshots which is very often just garbage.

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I haven't had any problems with import and compositing. My setup is very basic though: xcompmgr -c