Re: [linux-audio-user] OT: Screen capture application...

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Subject: Re: [linux-audio-user] OT: Screen capture application...
From: Steve Harris (S.W.Harris_AT_ecs.soton.ac.uk)
Date: Sun Sep 12 2004 - 23:12:47 EEST


On Sun, Sep 12, 2004 at 10:37:04AM -0500, Jan Depner wrote:
> You can use Ksnapshot. If you need to capture pull down menus you can
> use xwd in a script with a sleep delay as in:
>
> sleep 5
> xwd -root -out output_file.xwd
> convert output_file.xwd output_file.png
> rm fred.xwd
>
> Start the script then pull down your menu and wait 5 seconds. If you
> want to capture a specific window instead of the entire screen you can
> use -name windowname or -id windowid instead of -root. The "convert"
> command is part of ImageMagick. If you don't have that you can use
> something else to convert it (don't ask me what, I have ImageMagick ;-)

In fedora at least you can do Alt+PrntScrn, or just PrntScrn if you
want the whole desktop.

- Steve


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