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Ben Okopnik [ben at linuxgazette.net]
----- Forwarded message from Henry Grebler <henrygrebler at optusnet.com.au> -----
I was writing an article. I needed more than words; I needed screen shots. Over the years, I've done this in different ways. Of late, I've used ImageMagick(1) for this sort of work, in particular,
import - saves any visible window on an X server and outputs it as an image file. You can capture a single window, the entire screen, or any rectangular portion of the screen.
I was capturing parts of web pages. Then I came to a roadblock. I clicked on a button and it produced a drop-down list. I wanted to capture the contents of the drop-down list. But, some drop-down lists are unfriendly. For example, in Firefox, if I click on File, the usual drop-down list appears, but now my keyboard is deactivated. I also lose most mouse functions, except for moving the cursor. And, if I click anywhere, the drop-down list disappears.
So how to take the screen shot?
I started up a vncserver and a vncviewer (client); and then invoked Firefox inside the VNC client.
Click on File, move the cursor out of the VNC client, and, voila - I can now use import to take a screen shot of the menu of the Firefox running in vncviewer.
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Danila Bespalov [danila.bespalov at gmail.com]
> ----- Forwarded message from Henry Grebler<henrygrebler at optusnet.com.au> ----- > > I was writing an article. I needed more than words; I needed screen > shots. Over the years, I've done this in different ways. Of late, I've > used ImageMagick(1) for this sort of work, in particular, > > import - saves any visible window on an X server and outputs > it as an image file. You can capture a single window, the > entire screen, or any rectangular portion of the screen. > > I was capturing parts of web pages. Then I came to a roadblock. I > clicked on a button and it produced a drop-down list. I wanted to > capture the contents of the drop-down list. But, some drop-down lists > are unfriendly. For example, in Firefox, if I click on File, the usual > drop-down list appears, but now my keyboard is deactivated. I also > lose most mouse functions, except for moving the cursor. And, if I > click anywhere, the drop-down list disappears. > > So how to take the screen shot? > > I started up a vncserver and a vncviewer (client); and then invoked > Firefox inside the VNC client. > > Click on File, move the cursor out of the VNC client, and, voila - I > can now use import to take a screen shot of the menu of the Firefox > running in vncviewer. > > ----- End forwarded message ----- > > TAG mailing list > TAG at lists.linuxgazette.net > http://lists.linuxgazette.net/listinfo.cgi/tag-linuxgazette.net >I usually use ksnapshot for this task. You just set the timer, open the list, and when the time expires you can choose a region on the screen, including the list. Actually, Firefox lists are really unfriendly - you can't press Enter to capture the selected region as usually, but you can still use double-click.
import would do that well too, but it tries to grab mouse that, apparently, already was grabbed by Firefox, which results in error.
Anderson Silva [afsilva at gmail.com]
On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 3:56 PM, Ben Okopnik <ben at linuxgazette.net> wrote:
> ----- Forwarded message from Henry Grebler <henrygrebler at optusnet.com.au> ----- > > I was writing an article. I needed more than words; I needed screen > shots. Over the years, I've done this in different ways. Of late, I've > used ImageMagick(1) for this sort of work, in particular, > > ? ? ? ?import ?- ?saves any visible window on an X server and outputs > ? ? ? ?it as an image file. You can capture a single window, the > ? ? ? ?entire screen, or any rectangular portion of the screen. > > I was capturing parts of web pages. Then I came to a roadblock. I > clicked on a button and it produced a drop-down list. I wanted to > capture the contents of the drop-down list. But, some drop-down lists > are unfriendly. For example, in Firefox, if I click on File, the usual > drop-down list appears, but now my keyboard is deactivated. I also > lose most mouse functions, except for moving the cursor. And, if I > click anywhere, the drop-down list disappears. > > So how to take the screen shot? > > I started up a vncserver and a vncviewer (client); and then invoked > Firefox inside the VNC client. > > Click on File, move the cursor out of the VNC client, and, voila - I > can now use import to take a screen shot of the menu of the Firefox > running in vncviewer. > > ----- End forwarded message ----- > > TAG mailing list > TAG at lists.linuxgazette.net > http://lists.linuxgazette.net/listinfo.cgi/tag-linuxgazette.net >
The latest versions of gnome (at least), just click the PrintScreen button on your keyboard, and a screenshot is saved to your desktop.