[Live-demo] grabbing screenshots with the menus open

Jorge Gaspar Sanz Salinas jsanz at osgeo.org
Wed Aug 17 01:51:53 PDT 2011


El 17/08/11 07:09, Hamish escribió:
> In xUbuntu Natty, the Print and Alt-Print are set up^ to grab
> screenshots (full screen and just selected window, respectively).
> 
> [^ hmm, does that block the magic sysrq key?]
> 
> As Brian discovered, this doesn't work if the menus are open.
> To get a screenshots of the menus, in the second workspace open
> a terminal and run:
>   sleep 10 && xfce4-screenshooter -f
> 
> then minimize the window and swap back to workspace #1, pick what
> you want from the menu and wait.
> 
> note that the cursor doesn't seem to get picked up, for that
> maybe you need to create the screenshot from outside of the VM,
> then crop in an image editing program? (well that works..,
> screenshot updated in svn)
> 
> 
> Hamish
> 
> ps- screen resizing and mouse-at-edge are working fine with the
> VM loaded into qemu+kvm. Can you access the bottom mac-like menu
> from VBox or does the edge-effect problem hurt that?
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I usually work with shutter, tons of options for manual writers and
screenshoters like me :-)

http://shutter-project.org/

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Jorge Gaspar Sanz Salinas
http://es.osgeo.org
http://jorgesanz.net



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