Re: [newbie] print/capture screen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 30 June 2002 11:43 pm, Josef Lowder wrote: Why is it not possible, with Linux, to use the Print Screen key to simply capture a screen image into memory (as MS clipboard apparently does) so that it can be pasted, from memory, into any given application program without having to go through all the extra steps of saving the captured image to a file first and then several more steps and keystrokes to import the saved file into any given application? You're asking the wrong people! As a UI designer, I do this sort of thing all the time and what I do is: i. Add a capture button to the panel at the bottom of the screen (right mouse button on panel then Panel | Add | Button then pick Screen Capture from the program list in Multimedia | Graphics); ii. Whenever I want to capture the screen, press that button then save the capture, from the window which pops up, with the default (unique) filename chosen; iii. Import ad lib into KPresenter or KWord. That certainly is not 'literally dozens of steps and keystrokes' (the second step is one mouse click and one button press) and, as a bonus, preserves the capture as a separate PNG file which I file away on CD-RW. Alastair - -- Alastair Scott (London, United Kingdom) http://www.unmetered.org.uk/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE9IDu/Cv59vFiSU4YRAvdHAKCLZTf5I/Bq+O5zDK27QbTeJMq77QCghDjy E+lmzsGAGDfgT0ZNYa+5yVU= =z9rV -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] print/capture screen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 30 June 2002 12:44 am, Todd Slater wrote: Then I went to edit my Fluxbox keys file (~/.fluxbox/keys) and specified that I want Control + Alt + c to run this script. After restarting Fluxbox, all is well. I'm not sure how you do keybindings in KDE, but there must be a way. There's an easier way from KDE - do Alt-F2 then type ksnapshot. The snapshot is grabbed immediately you press Return, then the ksnapshot window appears and you can do what you like with it. Alastair - -- Alastair Scott (London, United Kingdom) http://www.unmetered.org.uk/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE9HuOOCv59vFiSU4YRAieoAJwKhR5xJfZt0DrUi9jhSt/tjczERgCg0pBV wsiXTkTgiac3bsQX4CSwmos= =OtTq -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] print/capture screen
On Sun, 30 Jun 2002 11:55:06 +0100 Alastair Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 30 June 2002 12:44 am, Todd Slater wrote: Then I went to edit my Fluxbox keys file (~/.fluxbox/keys) and specified that I want Control + Alt + c to run this script. After restarting Fluxbox, all is well. I'm not sure how you do keybindings in KDE, but there must be a way. There's an easier way from KDE - do Alt-F2 then type ksnapshot. The snapshot is grabbed immediately you press Return, then the ksnapshot window appears and you can do what you like with it. That is easy. I was looking for a way to call it from CLI without getting the terminal in the shot. I don't think Fluxbox has any way to do that. Todd -- Todd Slater No use to shout at them to pay attention. If the situations, the materials, the problems before the child do not interest him, his attention will slip off to what does interest him, and no amount of exhortation of threats will bring it back. (John Holt) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] print/capture screen
On Sun, 30 Jun 2002 19:10:10 -0400
Todd Slater [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sun, 30 Jun 2002 19:28:53 -0300
Damian G [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sun, 30 Jun 2002 10:50:54 -0400
Todd Slater [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sun, 30 Jun 2002 11:55:06 +0100
Alastair Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
There's an easier way from KDE - do Alt-F2 then type ksnapshot. The
snapshot is grabbed immediately you press Return, then the ksnapshot
window appears and you can do what you like with it.
That is easy. I was looking for a way to call it from CLI without
getting the terminal in the shot. I don't think Fluxbox has any way to
do that.
Todd
uhm.. add it to your menu?
edit ~/.fluxbox/menu
add a line like this:
[submenu] (Snapshot-tool)
[exec] (Ksnapshot) {ksnapshot}
[end]
HTH
Damian
Yes, I have that in my menu already, but it won't work unless you have
some free desktop to click in. Is there a keyboard shortcut for bringing
up the menu?
Thanks,
Todd
umm, if there is, i'm not aware of it, however you can always set up
key-bindings for stuff. have you tried it?
in this case, edit ~/.fluxbox/keys
and, for example, if you wanna open Ksnapshot with
the Window$ key + k then the line to be added would be like:
Mod4 K :ExecCommand ksnapshot
maybe you already know about his too, but.. well, just in case
you needed it ;o)
( Mod4 means the windoze key, Mod1 means Alt key aww gawd i
forgot the rest. )
damn fever.. i'll go to bed now.
Damian
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Re: [newbie] print/capture screen
Alastair wrote: There's an easier way from KDE - do Alt-F2 then type ksnapshot. The snapshot is grabbed immediately you press Return, then the ksnapshot window appears and you can do what you like with it. This is helpful . . . however, my original question was: is there any way to do a Print Screen in Linux . . . which would be comparable in simplicity and ease-of-use . . . to the way it works with MS windows? Again, I want to emphasize that I am definitely pro-Linux, however when something as useful and basic as Print Screen works as well and efficiently as it does under MS windows, then I would hope that the Linux community would be eager to develop an equal or superior functionality for Linux. In this case, it seems that what has been suggested for Linux thus far is not nearly as simple and efficient as as the MS Print Screen feature. Simplicity and easy of use is not subjective. It is determined by how few steps (keystrokes and separate manual operations) are required. In the case of MS Print Screen, there are only two steps: #1. Press the Print Screen button. #2. Press paste in any application program in which one desires to place the captured image. I use it numerous times almost every day, capturing screen prints and pasting them in LView (the most easy-to-use, versatile, graphics tool I have), or in Paint or in Paint Shop Pro or in Pagemaker or in any other application program where I can quickly and easily crop, resize, or edit the captured image. For comparison, using Ksnapshot with Linux, there are literally dozens of steps and keystrokes involved in saving a captured image to a file then opening that file within any given application program. Why is it not possible, with Linux, to use the Print Screen key to simply capture a screen image into memory (as MS clipboard apparently does) so that it can be pasted, from memory, into any given application program without having to go through all the extra steps of saving the captured image to a file first and then several more steps and keystrokes to import the saved file into any given application? Surely there must be a way to do this. Joe Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
