How to take picture of screen?

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How to take picture of screen?

#1 Post by divisionmd »

Hello,

I want a tool to take a picture of the screen - previously i used scrot anyone know of any alternative to this?

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#2 Post by dejan555 »

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mtpaint -s
? :lol:
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If you have gimp installed you can also take a screenshot from there.Open Gimp and go to File>>>Acquire>>>Screenshot...
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#4 Post by Sylvander »

I like Captura.
It allows you to choose/capture a specified rectangular region of screen, and save it as a jpg file, with a name you specify, to a location of your choosing.
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#5 Post by vovchik »

Dear divisionmd,

Please see my post here: http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=55724. This is a QT4 program and it is much smaller than captura, provided you already have qt4 libs installed. If not, captura is smaller. Ksnapshot isn't bad either, but it requires all of KDE installed, which you probably don't want to do if you don't have to.

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#6 Post by divisionmd »

Hello All,

- Thanks for all the input!

- Will go through and test all of these options.

- i want to take a picture silently - not open a window - mtpaint -s works but a window show up.. .

Best regards,
Johan
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#7 Post by looseSCREWorTWO »

In Puppy 421 Retro I always go Menu / Graphic / mtPaint Screen Snapshot and it giives me a choice to take the pic right away, or I can type in how much of a delay I want.
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#8 Post by Makoto »

There's also ttuuxxx's Pup-Shots utility: http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=387985
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#9 Post by RetroTechGuy »

divisionmd wrote:Hello All,

- Thanks for all the input!

- Will go through and test all of these options.

- i want to take a picture silently - not open a window - mtpaint -s works but a window show up.. .

Best regards,
Johan
Sounds like you're trying to do some computer monitoring (kids being bad?).

If you need regular/multiple snapshots, you may want to set up a "chron" job, which would allow you to perform periodic program runs.
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#10 Post by jafadmin »

dejan555 wrote:

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mtpaint -s
? :lol:
This is the correct motorcycle...

Create a script with that line of code in it, then put a link to the script on yuor desktop. When you want a screen snapshop just click the shortcut.

Werks like a charm
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#11 Post by dejan555 »

And if you want delay you can use something like

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sleep 10 && mtpaint -s
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#12 Post by Jim1911 »

Try Menu > Graphic > mtPaint-snapshot-screen-capture. If you don't want to bother with the Menu, copy /usr/share/applications/mtpaint-snapshot-screen-capture.desktop to your desktop.
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#13 Post by CatDude »

Hi
divisionmd wrote: I want a tool to take a picture of the screen - previously i used scrot anyone know of any alternative to this?
So why not use scrot now ?
Makoto wrote:There's also ttuuxxx's Pup-Shots utility: http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=387985
Here is a snippet from the link above:
ttuuxxx wrote: The package below Pup-Shots.pet is all you need to install, It contains the following files
-Pup-Shots
-imlib2-1.4.2
-giblib-1.2.4
-scrot-0.8

Packages were compiled on 4.3.1
Apparently scrot is also included in dpup,
gposil said in this thread: dpup-482beta testing
gposil wrote:ttuuxxx...it doesn't need scrot either, that's already in Dpup...the current screenshot app uses it..

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#14 Post by samarai »

dejan555 wrote:And if you want delay you can use something like

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sleep 10 && mtpaint -s
:lol:
I like this,short n ordinary,but nice.

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sleep 10 && mtpaint -s &
then exit terminal.
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#15 Post by Béèm »

If you install DuDE, you'll have a bar which pops into view if you touch the top of the screen in which there is an icon to take a screen shot.
Could it be easier?
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#16 Post by divisionmd »

Hello All,

- Thanks again for all input.

- Catudue: i used scrot before but noticed some "delay" about 1 second when it did capture the screen.

- but i will test that dpup might be that when i tested with scrot i had old glibs or something..

Best regards,
Johan
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