[TriLUG] Screen Capture: Debian

[John M. Harris Jr. via TriLUG]

With KDE's Spectacle, a snapshot is taken from the compositor when you pressed 
PrtSc. This preserves any open context menus.

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John M. Harris, Jr. <johnmh at openblox.org>
Project Lead, OpenBlox

On Thursday, June 28, 2018 7:26:15 PM EDT 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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