How to take screenshot in KDE?

Ecstasy · #1 19th February 2009, 01:16 PM

Hey guys,

I know we need to press Prnt Screen for taking screenshots but guess what it ain't working. Is there any way to fix this or any other way that i can take SS?

Thanks in advance.

PatMcLJr · #2 19th February 2009, 02:24 PM

hummm when I need a screen shoot I like ksnapshot
works great

I guess you could use scrot it works great too but it's not as gooiye

Best of Luck,
Pat Jr

JN4OldSchool · #3 19th February 2009, 02:31 PM

ksnapshot is so good I have continued to use it in gnome then xfce.

mhtrinh · #4 19th February 2009, 02:40 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Ecstasy

Hey guys,

I know we need to press Prnt Screen for taking screenshots but guess what it ain't working.

In my KDE 3.5, on Fedora 8, the Print Screen key have a shortcut to ksnapshot command. To configure this, you have to go to kcontrol center, Regional Accessibility then Input actions

Ecstasy · #5 19th February 2009, 06:36 PM

I downloaded Ksnapshot but i can't seem to use it. Can anyone post how to use it via yum?

JN4OldSchool · #6 19th February 2009, 06:42 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Ecstasy

I downloaded Ksnapshot but i can't seem to use it. Can anyone post how to use it via yum?

Did you see my screenshot? It is self explanatory. What are you talking about; yum? Yum is the package manager, what does that have to do with ksnapshot? Do you have ksnapshot installed? try running it from a terminal, the command is "ksnapshot" without the quotes. Can you elaborate on your problem?

PatMcLJr · #7 19th February 2009, 06:57 PM

hummm?

as root
(prompt is already there)
# yum -y install ksnapshot
--- blah blah blah
#exit

then as a user with X running (duah)
find it in the assessors or pop open a terminal or run command line

(terminal)
$ksnapshot

that's about it

Maybe scrot would be easier?
from a terminal or run command
$scrot

it drops a file in the current directory with the date and some other stuff. It defaults to png and I've nevr read up how to change it but I am sure you can. If not look up imagemagic and truly, it is magic!

Best of Luck,
pat Jr.

Ecstasy · #8 20th February 2009, 12:42 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by PatMcLJr

hummm?

as root
(prompt is already there)
# yum -y install ksnapshot
--- blah blah blah
#exit

then as a user with X running (duah)
find it in the assessors or pop open a terminal or run command line

(terminal)
$ksnapshot

that's about it

Maybe scrot would be easier?
from a terminal or run command
$scrot

it drops a file in the current directory with the date and some other stuff. It defaults to png and I've nevr read up how to change it but I am sure you can. If not look up imagemagic and truly, it is magic!

Best of Luck,
pat Jr.

I installed ksnapshot with the terminal command you gave but i still don't see it anywhere in my program list..

Any suggestions?

PatMcLJr · #9 20th February 2009, 01:33 PM

OK then just start it with the terminal

as a user, probably you
$ ksnapshot

and it should pop right up

Best of Luck,
Pat Jr.

Ecstasy · #10 20th February 2009, 04:52 PM

It didn't.

JN4OldSchool · #11 20th February 2009, 04:56 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Ecstasy

It didn't.

Did you try without the space before the command? (Pat made a typo in his last post).

edit: Also, YOU do not type in the dollar sign, this is the terminal symbol for a regular user!!! Just type ksnapshot in the terminal!

It should be:

$ksnapshot

If this does not open it then it is not installed. I suggest you install yumex which is a graphical frontend for yum. This will make it very easy to install stuff from now on.

su -
(your root password)
yum install yumex

If this does not work then you have bigger problems. It should show up in your system menu. Once installed just start yumex and do a search for ksnapshot.

RupertPupkin · #12 20th February 2009, 06:27 PM

I like using ImageMagick:

Code:

import -window root screenshot.png

Ecstasy · #13 20th February 2009, 06:35 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by JN4OldSchool

Did you try without the space before the command? (Pat made a typo in his last post).

edit: Also, YOU do not type in the dollar sign, this is the terminal symbol for a regular user!!! Just type ksnapshot in the terminal!

It should be:

$ksnapshot

If this does not open it then it is not installed. I suggest you install yumex which is a graphical frontend for yum. This will make it very easy to install stuff from now on.

su -
(your root password)
yum install yumex

If this does not work then you have bigger problems. It should show up in your system menu. Once installed just start yumex and do a search for ksnapshot.

Great, it worked finally !!

Thanks a lot buddy and everyone else also.