Re: Bug#343244: GTK frontend shortcuts should be documented

[Attilio Fiandrotti <fiandro@tiscalinet.it>]

Colin Watson wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 14, 2005 at 02:22:42AM +0100, Attilio Fiandrotti wrote:
>
> > Davide Viti wrote:
> >
> > > "Stamp" is the (Italian) equivalent of "PrtSc" or whatever
> > > is written on the key which is meant to "Print Screen"
> >
> > Davide is right: i forgot that <STAMP> was an italian translation for 
> > <PRTSC>, sorry..
> > Ah, do macintosh and other systems different from IBM PC AT also have 
> > this key on their keyboard, or at least a key equivalent to <PRTSC> ?
> > If some of them don't, then we must choose another key to grab the screen.
>
>
> I don't know about desktop Mac systems, but my PowerBook has no key
> which I can identify as being equivalent to PrintScreen. If it has one
> at all then it isn't engraved on it and it must only be accessible via
> some bizarre function key combination.
Uhm.. so it seems we have to found another key to take screenshots that 
every keyboard in this world has and that is not used for other purposes 
by the d-i: what about the F12 key? do everyone has this key on his 
keyboard? is it known to be used for something in the d-i ?
Screenshots are actually taken by DFB subsystem, the GTK frontend itself 
does nothing: i'll ask DFB developers if the key used to take 
screenshots can be customized at runtime with an appropriate entry in 
/etc/directfbrc.
If this isn't possible, then screen grabbing mechanism should be 
implemeted via GTK: this is not bad at all since will allow the GTK 
frontend to take screenshots even if used in an X environement instead 
of DFB.

ciao

Attilio