Capture Screen by press some key

[Mascara Negra]

hello , I wonder if there is the possibility of getting to press any key and the F6 for example, Fedora starts up a screenshot, equal to application "form screen capture image" in the menu acessories .. The problem is that if I want to do this I have to be opening up the application every time .. and I like to do with was fast, just by clicking F6 or printscreen for example ..

Thanks in advance.

[Dan]

Press the "Print Screen" key, and wait a few seconds.

[Dangermouse]

Or just to capture a app 'alt+print Screen'

Evening Dan

[Dan]

Evening, Dave. <....>

[Mascara Negra]

hi,

if i do that will capture all screen and i want choose with the mouse what capture...

[bob]

Maybe not a perfect solution, but why not simply crop the shot afterward with gthumb or gimp?

[Gaurav Prabhu]

Is there any way to take screenshot if one is running a terminal? Any command which can be issued to take screenshot of current screen & save it to a file?

[Dangermouse]

Originally Posted by Gaurav Prabhu

Is there any way to take screenshot if one is running a terminal? Any command which can be issued to take screenshot of current screen & save it to a file?

do you mean something like

import -window root screenshot.png

[BugRocks1]

To take screenshots of menus from windows you will need to edit the shortcut's for the keyboard to launch Gimp or imagemagick.

The link below show what command lines you need to use.
http://tips.webdesign10.com/how-to-t...n-ubuntu-linux

This link show how to edit gnome to create global keyboard shortcuts.
http://www.debian-administration.org...tcuts_in_GNOME

---------- Post added at 05:10 AM CDT ---------- Previous post was at 04:32 AM CDT ----------

Using gconf-editor in apps -> metacity -> keybinding_commands the last 2 are the screenshot commands one can add a delay to them by appending "--delay 5"

gnome-screenshot --delay 5
gnome-screeshot --window --delay 5

---------- Post added at 05:34 AM CDT ---------- Previous post was at 05:10 AM CDT ----------

hi,

if i do that will capture all screen and i want choose with the mouse what capture...

To do that you could use the "-a" flag.

gnome-screenshot -a

[Gaurav Prabhu]

Originally Posted by Dangermouse

do you mean something like

Yes, something like that but where does the file gets saved? Also would love more info about the same.

[BugRocks1]

Originally Posted by Gaurav Prabhu

Yes, something like that but where does the file gets saved? Also would love more info about the same.

Type:

pwd

And you will see as there was no path indicate the default path is "almost always" the actual path.

For more info aboutthe "import" command type:

man import.

[Dangermouse]

Originally Posted by Gaurav Prabhu

Yes, something like that but where does the file gets saved? Also would love more info about the same.

The file gets saved where you want it, or where the terminal is
eg

import -window root /home/Dangermouse/Pictures/screenshot.png

or if you want a delay (5 = 5seconds)

sleep 5; import -window root /home/Dangermouse/Pictures/screenshot.png

or if you want to set width of shot

import -window root -resize 500 screenshot.png

or taking it a bit further if you want to take a screenshot every so many seconds etc...
then this little script will do it, thats if you want to spy etc...

#!/usr/bin/bash
I=0
while [ 1 ]; do
FILENAME=/home/Dangermouse/.shots/${BASENAME}${I}.png

echo "Saving ${FILENAME}"
import -window root -silent ${FILENAME}
I=$[ $I + 1 ]
sleep 5
done

obviously you will need to change settings eg time and folder to suit you...

[Gaurav Prabhu]

Thanks. I wanted to know about this since a long time.

[Mascara Negra]

Originally Posted by BugRocks1

To take screenshots of menus from windows you will need to edit the shortcut's for the keyboard to launch Gimp or imagemagick.

The link below show what command lines you need to use.
http://tips.webdesign10.com/how-to-t...n-ubuntu-linux

This link show how to edit gnome to create global keyboard shortcuts.
http://www.debian-administration.org...tcuts_in_GNOME

---------- Post added at 05:10 AM CDT ---------- Previous post was at 04:32 AM CDT ----------

Using gconf-editor in apps -> metacity -> keybinding_commands the last 2 are the screenshot commands one can add a delay to them by appending "--delay 5"

gnome-screenshot --delay 5
gnome-screeshot --window --delay 5

---------- Post added at 05:34 AM CDT ---------- Previous post was at 05:10 AM CDT ----------



To do that you could use the "-a" flag.

Thx dude, solve my problem.

[dj_judas21]

I can't help but think that taking a screenshot of a terminal is missing the point of a text interface. Why not just copy / pipe the contents of the terminal to a text file?