Re: Screenshots

[lee <lee@yun.yagibdah.de>]

Frank McCormick <debianlist@videotron.ca> writes:

> ImageMagicks import commmand seems to work better to select a portion
> of the page...but it needs a new file name for each shot..which makes
> it a little awkward.
>
> Does anyone have suggestions...perhaps a batch file to rename the
> files after they've been taken ?


,---- [ ~/.fvwm/.fvwm2rc ]
| Key Print               A       A       Screenshot
| 
| 
| # Screenshot - using import from ImageMagick
| # taken from fvwm-crystal
| 
| DestroyFunc Screenshot
| AddToFunc Screenshot
| + I Exec exec mkdir -p $HOME/fvwm/screenshots
| + I Exec exec import -window root -quality 100 $HOME/fvwm/screenshots/screenshot-`date +%Y%m%d_%H%M`.png
| 
| 
| DestroyFunc Screenshot-Delay
| AddToFunc Screenshot-Delay
| + I Exec exec mkdir -p $HOME/fvwm/screenshots
| + I Exec exec import -pause 10 -window root -quality 100 $HOME/fvwm/screenshots/screenshot-`date +%Y%m%d_%H%M`.png
| 
| DestroyFunc Screenshot-Frame
| AddToFunc Screenshot-Frame
| + I Exec exec mkdir -p $HOME/fvwm/screenshots
| + I Exec exec import -frame -quality 100 $HOME/fvwm/screenshots/screenshot-`date +%Y%m%d_%H%M`.png
| 
| 
| # A little menu...
| DestroyMenu Screenshot
| AddToMenu Screenshot
| + "Screenshot Menu"             Title
| + "Fullscreen"                  Screenshot
| + "Delayed fullscreen"          Screenshot-Delay
| + "Frame"                       Screenshot-Frame
`----


You can adjust so you need to select an area, and you can do similar
with i3 with something like "bindsym $mod+Print exec --no-startup-id
import ...".


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