[Live-demo] grabbing screenshots with the menus open

Cameron Shorter cameron.shorter at gmail.com
Wed Aug 17 13:22:02 PDT 2011


On 17/08/2011 6:51 PM, Jorge Gaspar Sanz Salinas wrote:
> 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)
>>
>
> I usually work with shutter, tons of options for manual writers and
> screenshoters like me :-)
>
> http://shutter-project.org/
>

Yes, tips about shutter, and windows screen shot tools, and a couple of 
other things is included in our documentation section on the wiki:

http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Live_GIS_Add_Project#Screen_Shot

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