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Re: Linux screensaver

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Many thanks, Eli. That should keep me busy for a day or two.

Hul

Eli the Bearded <*@eli.users.panix.com> wrote:
> In comp.os.linux.misc, Hul Tytus  <ht@panix.com> wrote:
> >    After reading the remarks here it's apparent "screensaver"s save the screen 
> > from the results of continued and needless display of the same image. Ah so... 
> > I was looking for a program enabling pressing a key & having the screen's 
> > image placed in a file for later recall. Snapshot maybe? Imagesave? What's the 
> > suitable term?

> Screenshot. Often a tool is already installed for that. xwd will work in
> a pinch, but it's old and only writes images to obscure xwd format.
> Imagemagick's convert has no problems with that format:

>         xwd -root | convert xwd:- "$filename"

> will capture the full screen and save it to $filename (which should
> include an extension such as .png or .jpg to specify format).

> >    Also, any suggestion on a Linux system that isn't hindered with ubuntu's 

> On Ubuntu, specifically, I believe a default screen shot tool (better
> than xwd) is by default bound to a keystroke out of the box. I don't
> recall which tool or the exact keystroke, but it saves images to the
> standard pictures directory and the keystroke is something involving the
> "prtsc" (print screen) button. Maybe just the button, maybe with shift
> or control? Try it out.

> At this point I can't remember what the standard pictures directory is.
> $HOME/Pictures or $HOME/Images probably. I override the default because
> directories with capital letters are not to my tastes.

> $ cat ~/.config/user-dirs.dirs
> XDG_DESKTOP_DIR="$HOME/.empty"
> XDG_DOWNLOAD_DIR="$HOME/downloads"
> XDG_TEMPLATES_DIR="$HOME/work"
> XDG_PUBLICSHARE_DIR="$HOME/tmp"
> XDG_DOCUMENTS_DIR="$HOME/notes"
> XDG_MUSIC_DIR="$HOME/tmp"
> XDG_PICTURES_DIR="$HOME/images"
> XDG_VIDEOS_DIR="$HOME/video"
> $

> > sudo or ubuntu's witholding the administrator's password?

> "sudo passwd root" works. Boot to single user mode and changing root's
> password has always worked. Capturing a screenshot requires access to
> X11, not root permissions.

> Elijah
> ------
> there are a lot of screen shot tools these days

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Re: Linux screensaver Hul Tytus <ht@panix.com> - 2020-06-17 20:12 +0000
  Re: Linux screensaver Robert Heller <heller@deepsoft.com> - 2020-06-17 15:37 -0500
    Re: Linux screensaver Hul Tytus <ht@panix.com> - 2020-06-18 18:48 +0000
  Re: Linux screensaver Eli the Bearded <*@eli.users.panix.com> - 2020-06-17 21:05 +0000
    Re: Linux screensaver Stéphane CARPENTIER <sc@fiat-linux.fr> - 2020-06-17 21:54 +0000
      Re: Linux screensaver Hul Tytus <ht@panix.com> - 2020-06-18 18:54 +0000
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      Re: Linux screensaver Hul Tytus <ht@panix.com> - 2020-06-18 18:55 +0000
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