[TriLUG] Screen Capture: Debian

[Roger W. Broseus via TriLUG]

One can set a delay in The GIMP to give time to gain focus and even activate a 
drop-down menu before capturing a screen shot. See my previous post on The GIMP.

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On 06/28/2018 07:26 PM, Lee Fickenscher via TriLUG wrote:
> It seems like it depends on the application that you're trying to
> screenshot.
> If the app's menus roll back up when they loose focus, as they do in chrome
> or firefox, I'm not sure how you'd be able to make this work.
> I guess if you can pre-select your area and set a timer so that you could
> then drop your menu, that would work.
> But I didn't notice that any of the suggestions could do that.
>
> If the menu stays down when the app loses focus, like nautilus, then almost
> any screenshot app that can select an area would work.
> In that case I'd suggest scrot. It's quick, simple, and runs from the
> command line.
>
> -Lee
>
> On Thu, Jun 28, 2018 at 7:49 AM Brian Grawburg via TriLUG <trilug at trilug.org>
> wrote:
>
>> I've yet to find a screen capturing program that will let me also capture
>> drop-down menus without having to capture the entire screen and then go
>> back and crop the image in GIMP. (I'm used to a Windows application that
>> lets me do that.) Seems to me I read something that this might not actually
>> be possible in Linux. Anyone know different?
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>> Brian Grawburg
>> Wilson, NC
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