Re: Screenshot with Gnome
On 2022-07-26, Richmond <richmond@criptext.com> wrote:
> Curt <curty@free.fr> writes:
>
>> On 2022-07-26, Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> wrote:
>>> On Tue, Jul 26, 2022 at 05:03:09PM +0300, Antti Talsta wrote:
>>>> On Tue, Jul 26, 2022 at 12:40:53PM +0100, Richmond wrote:
>>>> > I am trying to take a screenshot of a selected area.
>>>> > I think something is broken. Maybe there is another utility?
>>>>
>>>> scrot
>>>
>>> I second this. scrot is what I use for screenshots, either full or
>>> partial. (Note: I don't use GNOME. Just fvwm.)
>>>
>>>
>>
>> For a brief, but horrible second I thought it was an expletive.
>
> So did I. But I tried it and it didn't quite work. I've now found out
> that my menu item is actually calling xfce4-screenshooter so that's
> probably why it doesn't work, and this works:
>
> gnome-screenshot -i
>
>
I've Imagemagick installed, so
import image.png
from a terminal works (though it seems you're confined to the active
window).
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