Comments on: Taking a screenshot of a menu under GNOME

By: GNot

GNot — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 05:51:39 +0000

Thanks for taking the time to record a video :) I have replied here.

By: mysurface

mysurface — Mon, 12 Mar 2007 00:35:47 +0000

Yes, it won’t change the windows focus automatically. Bare in mind you have your keyboard, use alt-tab to switch, and use alt to trigger menu as well.

I just uploaded the video on how i do a menu capture.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=maa37Fs8ZTE

Enjoy :)

By: GNot

GNot — Sun, 11 Mar 2007 17:13:41 +0000

Hi, I just tried to take a screenshot of a menu with import and it is still impossible.

When the mouse pointer turns into a cross, it is impossible to select any windows or objects. Even if you set the preference to select windows when the mouse pointer moves over them, the window focus does not change after the import command has been issued.

This clearly shows that noone in the GNOME community has considered taking screenshots of objects and even screenshots of areas, which are bigger than the computer screen and therefore capturing them in their entirety requires scrolling down, is very much important to someone, who in an effort to show off the desktop features, wastes valuable time in cropping images.

Thanks for your feedback. import seems to be just another alternative, but of the same capabilities as the forementioned tools.

By: mysurface

mysurface — Sun, 11 Mar 2007 16:47:17 +0000

To capture object’s screenshot i like to use image magick’s import
import gaim.png

It turns into a cross, you can click on objects or just drag your mouse to select a block to snapshot.
some examples here

By: GNot

GNot — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 17:45:36 +0000

I've found this page which contains info about various ways of taking screenshots, but it has nothing about advanced screen capturing like screenshots of menus or screenshots of webpages that are longer than the screen height. I'd be glad to know of any solution you might come up with. Thankis for your feedback :)

By: stavrosg

stavrosg — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 15:31:49 +0000

I’ve hit the same wall a couple of times in the past, and my solution was essentially the same, but with scrot instead of gnome-screenshot:
$ scrot -d 5
Then make the neccesary arrangements and wait for the shoot.
It is a design limitation, if I can recall correctly from a thread discussing something similar in xfce4-dev. If I find some time, I’ll try to dig it up and see.