How to setup a screen capture

[oldcpu]

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 happens. Is this wiki still current? I've double checked, but maybe I missed something in my following the wiki guidance.

[rockdoctor]

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 happens. Is this wiki still current? I've double checked, but maybe I missed something in my following the wiki guidance.

This is your lucky day; I just did this last week. I'm running Fedora 13, but that shouldn't matter. And for sure, there are other ways to do it. HTH
First, I downloaded and installed scrot and its two dependencies; imlib2, and giblib.
Second, I created a program called scrotshooter and placed it in /usr/local/bin:

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#!/bin/bash

msg="Image filename:"
mydir="$HOME/Desktop/"
title="ScreenShooter"

filename=$(zenity --entry --text "$msg" --entry-text $mydir --title title)

scrot -s -b $filename

exit 0

Third, I inserted the following code into $HOME/.config/openbox/lxde-rc.xml:

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    <!-- ****************************************************** -->
    <!-- screenshot  added by RockDoctor 20100305 -->
    <keybind key="A-Print">
      <action name="Execute">
        <command>scrotshooter</command>
      </action>
    </keybind>
    <!-- ****************************************************** -->

[oldcpu]

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. Since this was a milestone release (of openSUSE) I ended up rebuilding scrot from an src file. I thus had to install imlib2-devel in addition to imlib2, and imlib2-loaders. giblib was not a requirement but I assume that is due to packaging/naming differences between the distro.

[v0lt4g3]

I scratched my head over how to get a screen capture without installing the gimp.

Then as I was playing with mtPaint, I noticed a menu option File >> Actions >> Time delayed screenshot.

That was easy!


It gives you a couple of seconds to arrange things before the capture, but I have not yet dug into config files to set options.

I hope this can be of some help to someone else, because I've been wanting a simple screen capture ever since I installed F 14 LXDE.

Thank you.

[enthy]

the scrotshooter script seems a good solution
but i have giblib error: no image grabbed ???

i use synaptic for install scrot

any suggestion to resolve this situation ?

ok!
work fine with imagemagick.

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import MyScreenshot.png

http://tips.webdesign10.com/how-to-take ... untu-linux

[rockdoctor]

Turns out I'm currently using ImageMagick (and yad instead of zenity) - not sure why I switched. Anyway, here's my current code FWIW:

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# Program screenshooter3.sh
# Uses ImageMagick
# Copyright (C) 2010 RockDoctor
# Version 3.0.1 20100417
# Version 3.0.2 20100730
#  Changelog -
#    change to jpg; png capture of selected area not correct
#    change all occurrences of  .png  to  $suffix
#    define helpmsg after filemsg

suffix=".jpg"
mydir="$HOME/Desktop/"
filemsg="Image filename (without $suffix suffix): "

helpmsg="To capture the whole screen: screenshooter3 -s\n"
helpmsg=$helpmsg"To capture a single window:  screenshooter3 -w\n"
helpmsg=$helpmsg"To capture a region:         screenshooter3 -r\n\n"
helpmsg=$helpmsg"You will be prompted for a name for your image file\n"
helpmsg=$helpmsg"The suffix "$suffix" will automatically be added to the filename\n"


match="0"
if [ $# -gt 0 ]; then
    p=$(echo "$1" | sed -e 's/-//')
    match=$(echo "srw" | grep $p)
fi
if [ ${#match} -gt 0 ]; then
    if [ $# -eq 2 ]; then
        filename=$2$suffix
    else
        filename=$(yad --entry --text "$filemsg" --entry-text $mydir)$suffix
    fi
    case "$p" in
        "s" )
            import -window root $filename;;
        "w" )
            window_info==$(xwininfo)
            window_id=$(echo $window_info | cut -d ':' -f 4 | gawk '{print $1}')
            import -window $window_id $filename;;
        "r" )
            import $filename;;
    esac
else
    yad --info --text "$helpmsg"
fi

exit 0