Path: csiph.com!xmission!news.snarked.org!news.linkpendium.com!news.linkpendium.com!panix!not-for-mail From: Hul Tytus Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: Linux screensaver Date: Thu, 18 Jun 2020 18:52:27 +0000 (UTC) Organization: PANIX Public Access Internet and UNIX, NYC Lines: 54 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: panix1.panix.com X-Trace: reader1.panix.com 1592506347 10996 166.84.1.1 (18 Jun 2020 18:52:27 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@panix.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 18 Jun 2020 18:52:27 +0000 (UTC) Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:30141 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 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