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by oldcpu
Thu Apr 08, 2010 10:06 pm
Forum: General Help
Topic: How to setup a screen capture
Replies: 5
Views: 11491

Re: How to setup a screen capture

Thanks. That works. After implementing your recommendation, then pressing <ALT><Printscreen> followed by typing the desired file name, and then clicking on the desktop to capture either the entire screen or the window with focus, works well. I ended up implementing it on openSUSE-11.3 Milestone4. Si...
by oldcpu
Sun Feb 21, 2010 7:43 pm
Forum: General Help
Topic: How to setup a screen capture
Replies: 5
Views: 11491

How to setup a screen capture

I've been using the program "gimp" to do screen captures on my new install (openSUSE-11.3 milestone2 with LXDE). I tried the guidance here but it did not work: http://wiki.lxde.org/en/How_to_make_screenshots ... when press "printscreen" on my keyboard, nothing that I can detect h...
by oldcpu
Sun Feb 21, 2010 7:19 pm
Forum: Installation and Upgrade of LXDE
Topic: [SOLVED] How to have desktop icon prompt for root password?
Replies: 2
Views: 6721

Re: How to have desktop icon prompt for root password?

Turns out this works: [Desktop Entry] Encoding=UTF-8 Name=smart-software-manager Comment=Direct-link-to-smart-software-manager-with-root Exec=xdg-su -c 'smart --gui' Icon=/usr/share/pixmaps/smart.png MimeType=text/plain Terminal=false Type=Application MimeType=text/plain Categories=System;Utility;Se...
by oldcpu
Sun Feb 21, 2010 6:05 pm
Forum: Installation and Upgrade of LXDE
Topic: [SOLVED] How to have desktop icon prompt for root password?
Replies: 2
Views: 6721

[SOLVED] How to have desktop icon prompt for root password?

I'm very new to LXDE, and I'm trialing/testing its new implementation on openSUSE-11.3 milestone2 release. How do I add an icon to the desktop, so as to have it prompt me for root permissions when clicked on ? I successfull added icons to the desktop via this blog: http://blogs.koolwal.net/2009/09/1...