How do you take screenshots with the menu showing?
Hi. There's something I've been wondering about for some time now. I've been Googeling the subject a little, but I've failed to find an answer.
How do you take screenshots showing the menus in KDE, GNOME and Xfce? I keep seeing those cool screenshots showing off menus here on Tuxmachines and I'd like to make some like that myself.
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Taking screenshots of menus
You can also use Imagemagick from the terminal. With Imagemagick (and a delay) you can even resize the screenshots while you are taking them.
further questions of screenshots
When I try to take a screenie with ksnapshot of mplayer while it is playing a clip or movie, the output only shows a blue screen. What do I need to do in order to make the frame in the movie show during the snapshot?
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re: of screenshots
Try a different video output driver. I find that using xv allows for screenshots, even if it does "disable" fullscreen.
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Thanks for the reply
Thanks for the reply and explanation srlinuxx. I'm gonna give it a try.
re: Howto take screenshots with the menu showing
It's all in the delay. Give yourself time to get 'em open where you want. In distros with ksnapshot (kde), it's a breeze, just set the snapshot delay for 6, 7, or 8 seconds - whatever you need.
In light distros without ksnapshot, it's still a matter of delaying. In those cases, if I am forced to use like scrot, then it has a switch to allow for it. For example,
scrot -d 8 desktop.jpg
For those distros in which I must resort to xwd, I use sleep. Sleep is basically a delay mechanism for unix/linux. So, for example:
sleep 6; xwd -root > desktop.jpg
(Of course with xwd, they aren't really saved as jpegs. I just use that extension for convenience later when I convert them to jpgs.)
hth,
-s
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