Content of mss().monitors does not correspond with secondary screen resolution, cannot take screenshots (Windows 8.1)

General informations:

• OS name: Windows
• OS version: 8.1
• OS architecture: 64 bits
• Monitor(s)'s resolution: Monitor 1: 1600x900 ; Monitor 2: 1920x1080
• Result of the command python --version: Python 2.7.9

Description of the warning/error

The content of mss().monitors is incorrect:

import mss
for monitor in mss.mss().monitors:
	print monitor

Return:

{'width': 2880, 'top': 0, 'height': 900, 'scale': 1.0, 'left': 0}
{'width': 1600, 'top': 0, 'height': 900, 'scale': 1.0, 'left': 0}
{'width': 1280, 'top': 0, 'height': 720, 'scale': 1.0, 'left': 1600}

The third line does not correspond with the secondary monitor resolution.

Full message

Here is a testing script I made:

import mss
import mss.tools
from Tkinter import *
app = Tk()

def screenshot():
	top = btn.winfo_rooty()
	left = btn.winfo_rootx()
	width = btn.winfo_width()
	height = btn.winfo_height()
	
	selection = {'top': top, 'left': left, 'width': width, 'height': height}
	sct_img = mss.mss().grab(selection)
	mss.tools.to_png(sct_img.rgb, sct_img.size, output="screenshot.png")


btn=Button(app, text="Grab a screenshot", command=screenshot)
btn.pack(fill=X,padx=50, pady=50)

print "Monitors:"
for monitor in mss.mss().monitors:
	print monitor

app.mainloop()

The script creates a simple Tkinter windows with a buton. A click on the buton save a screenshot of that button, using the coordinate provided by Tkinter.

This works when the windows is on the primary monitor, but does not work after I drag the windows on the secondaty monitor: the screenshot represents another part of the monitor.

Other details

When I set the secondary monitor resolution to correspond with the resolution provided by mss, then the screenshot works perfectly on both monitors.

The script works just fine on Ubuntu.

[pnprog]

Hi! It maybe also an issue with my specific installation of Windows 8.1 (maybe the drivers or something else). This is not for a critical feature, so I pushed the code “in production” anyway. I will let you know if I get similar feedback.

[BoboTiG]

It will be hard for me to reproduce, I have no W8.1. The code that guesses monitors information is here, it seems legit but perhaps could you find something wrong here.