[TriLUG] Screen Capture: Debian

[Lee Fickenscher via TriLUG]

Hey Roger,
Setting a time delay would only be one part of the solution to what Brian
is asking (as I read it).
It seems as though he wants to select only part of the screen, say just the
menu and enough area around it to provide context, WITHOUT having to
further crop the image.
In every case I've seen, selecting a sub-area requires a click and drag.
Some menu types don't seem to continue to display if you click elsewhere in
the window as you would when doing a sub-area selection.
I can't see how GIMP would accomplish this without, for example,
pre-selecting an area in addition to setting a timer.
I'm not aware that GIMP provides that but honestly, Perhaps GIMP does a
full screen shot with insta-crop so that it seems like a single operation?

-Lee


On Thu, Jun 28, 2018 at 5:31 PM Roger W. Broseus via TriLUG <
trilug at trilug.org> wrote:

> 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?
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> Brian Grawburg
> >> Wilson, NC
> >>
> >>
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