A|RAKESH's Weblog » commandline http://airakesh.com [blog|zone - makes us connected] Thu, 26 Aug 2010 07:23:43 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 How to Capture Screenshot with Dropdown Menu in Place on Linux http://airakesh.com/blog/archives/2010/02/how-to-capture-screenshot-with-dropdown-menu-in-place-on-linux/ http://airakesh.com/blog/archives/2010/02/how-to-capture-screenshot-with-dropdown-menu-in-place-on-linux/#comments Fri, 12 Feb 2010 20:25:43 +0000 Rakesh http://airakesh.com/?p=638 As we know, the Screenshot is cool feature, but it is irritating if you can’t figure out how to make it capture an image of the desktop with a dropdown menu in place on Linux.

Background

In Linux computer (GNOME or KDE users), when you try to capture screenshot with dropdown menu, what happens is the Screenshot app closes the dropdown menu before it takes the snapshot.

If you are looking for tips on how to capture screenshot with dropdown menu in place on Linux, follow this steps:

You can do this with an application called scrot. Install with synaptic or with

Code:

debian:~# apt-get install scrot

(Note that you must log in as root)

you use it from the terminal like this

Code:

debian:~# scrot -cd 10 ~/Desktop/screenshot.png

If you’re in KDE, KSnapshot has this functionality built-in (and it’s point-and-click).

or you could use the GIMP screenshot & minimize the GIMP in the time-delay, before you drop that menu down….

This is an example screenshot (or screen capture) taken from command-line showing GNOME desktop with a dropdown menu:
screenshot-from-commandline

dropdown-screenshot-linux

Note that the apt-get (get application) tool is used to install applications in all Debian based Linux distributions such Ubuntu, Knoppix, etc (including Debian) but Fedora uses yum.

For Fedora users, install with synaptic or with

Code:

fedora:~# yum install scrot

It’s done the screenshot of a dropdown menu in place!!! :-)

Enjoy!

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