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Re: Automatically capturing screenshots

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On Wed, 4 Sep 2019 21:04:32 +0000 (UTC), V. Dorokhin wrote:
>
> 	I have an Xfce desktop with a number (8, actually) different 
> workspaces. Every so often I would like to capture and save a screenshot 
> of each of the workspaces. I know how to do this by hand, but I would 
> like to put together a shell-script to do it for me, so that I could 
> invoke it automatically from cron.

Am not sure I really understand what you want.

For taking screenshots I usually us import, which is part of
ImageMagick. Checkout the man page <https://linux.die.net/man/1/import>
and see, if any of its vast number of options can do that. I find for
example:

-pause value - seconds delay between snapshots
-frame - include window manager frame
-page - geometry size and location of an image canvas
-screen - select image from root window
-window id - select window with this id or name

May be one could create something with these or other options.

You could probably run one instance on every desktop in an x-term which
you then minimize.
-- 
Andreas

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Automatically capturing screenshots "V. Dorokhin" <vdor@nyet.net> - 2019-09-04 21:04 +0000
  Re: Automatically capturing screenshots John McCue <jmccue@jmclin1.hsd1.ma.comcast.net> - 2019-09-04 21:59 +0000
  Re: Automatically capturing screenshots Aragorn <thorongil@telenet.be> - 2019-09-05 00:14 +0200
  Re: Automatically capturing screenshots marrgol <marrgol@address.invalid> - 2019-09-05 01:07 +0200
  Re: Automatically capturing screenshots "V. Dorokhin" <vdor@nyet.net> - 2019-09-05 13:53 +0000
    Re: Automatically capturing screenshots John McCue <jmccue@jmclin1.hsd1.ma.comcast.net> - 2019-09-06 00:44 +0000
      Re: Automatically capturing screenshots "V. Dorokhin" <vdor@nyet.net> - 2019-09-06 15:02 +0000
  Re: Automatically capturing screenshots Andreas Kohlbach <ank@spamfence.net> - 2019-09-05 13:24 -0400

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