for the first time, trying to take some simple screenshots in my
pre-maverick (dist-upgraded) system and a couple observations.

first, Alt-PrtSc is allegedly supposed to take a shot of the single
active window, but i don't see that it has any effect whatsoever. is
this working for anyone else?

also, from the menus, if i select Apps->Accessories->Take
Screenshot, that operation appears to work but i have no idea where it
would have stored the image -- there is no feedback whatever.

thoughts?

rday

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On Sat, 2010-10-02 at 10:43 -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>
> for the first time, trying to take some simple screenshots in my
> pre-maverick (dist-upgraded) system and a couple observations.
>

What do you mean by 'pre-maverick (dist-upgraded)' - Lucid or Maverick
beta, or what?

> first, Alt-PrtSc is allegedly supposed to take a shot of the single
> active window, but i don't see that it has any effect whatsoever. is
> this working for anyone else?
>

On Lucid I get a 'Save Screenshot' dialogue to name and where to save
the screen shot (default is 'Desktop').

> also, from the menus, if i select Apps->Accessories->Take
> Screenshot, that operation appears to work but i have no idea where it
> would have stored the image -- there is no feedback whatever.
>

I don't have this in my menu.

> thoughts?
>
> rday
>

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On 2 October 2010 15:43, Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@crashcourse.ca> wrote:
> *first, Alt-PrtSc is allegedly supposed to take a shot of the single
> active window, but i don't see that it has any effect whatsoever. *is
> this working for anyone else?
>

Known bug.

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/metacity/+bug/642792

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On Sat, 2 Oct 2010 10:43:38 -0400 (EDT)
"Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@crashcourse.ca> wrote:

>
> for the first time, trying to take some simple screenshots in my
> pre-maverick (dist-upgraded) system and a couple observations.
>
> first, Alt-PrtSc is allegedly supposed to take a shot of the single
> active window, but i don't see that it has any effect whatsoever. is
> this working for anyone else?
>
> also, from the menus, if i select Apps->Accessories->Take
> Screenshot, that operation appears to work but i have no idea where it
> would have stored the image -- there is no feedback whatever.
>
> thoughts?
>
> rday
>
Suggest shutter.
sudo apt-get install shutter

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On 10/02/2010 04:46 PM, Cybe R. Wizard wrote:
> On Sat, 2 Oct 2010 10:43:38 -0400 (EDT)
> "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@crashcourse.ca> wrote:
>
>>
>> for the first time, trying to take some simple screenshots in my
>> pre-maverick (dist-upgraded) system and a couple observations.
>>
>> first, Alt-PrtSc is allegedly supposed to take a shot of the single
>> active window, but i don't see that it has any effect whatsoever. is
>> this working for anyone else?
>>
>> also, from the menus, if i select Apps->Accessories->Take
>> Screenshot, that operation appears to work but i have no idea where it
>> would have stored the image -- there is no feedback whatever.
>>
>> thoughts?
>>
>> rday
>>
> Suggest shutter.
> sudo apt-get install shutter

+1

However, be aware of:
<https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/shutter/+bug/549679>
[Shutter has disabled features: Web capture, Edit and Send]


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I use Applications->Accessories->Take Screenshot, and it allows me to save wherever I want.* Haven't tried Alt-PrtSc, it'll be nice if they get that working though

Off to install shutter


On Sat, Oct 2, 2010 at 9:00 PM, NoOp <glgxg@sbcglobal.net> wrote:

On 10/02/2010 04:46 PM, Cybe R. Wizard wrote:

> On Sat, 2 Oct 2010 10:43:38 -0400 (EDT)

> "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@crashcourse.ca> wrote:

>

>>

>> * for the first time, trying to take some simple screenshots in my

>> pre-maverick (dist-upgraded) system and a couple observations.

>>

>> * first, Alt-PrtSc is allegedly supposed to take a shot of the single

>> active window, but i don't see that it has any effect whatsoever. *is

>> this working for anyone else?

>>

>> * also, from the menus, if i select Apps->Accessories->Take

>> Screenshot, that operation appears to work but i have no idea where it

>> would have stored the image -- there is no feedback whatever.

>>

>> * thoughts?

>>

>> rday

>>

> Suggest shutter.

> sudo apt-get install shutter



+1



However, be aware of:

<https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/shutter/+bug/549679>

[Shutter has disabled features: Web capture, Edit and Send]





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On Sat, Oct 02, 2010 at 10:43:38AM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> for the first time, trying to take some simple screenshots in my
> pre-maverick (dist-upgraded) system and a couple observations.

I'm using lucid.

> first, Alt-PrtSc is allegedly supposed to take a shot of the single
> active window, but i don't see that it has any effect whatsoever. is
> this working for anyone else?

It works for me.

(The Alt-PrintScreen choice is a bit unfortunate. This is also known as
SysRq. The kernel has a bunch of magic keyboard commands you can invoke
by holding down Alt+SysRq+letter, e.g. Alt+SysRq+s writes dirty cache
pages back to disk. However when you hold down Alt+SysRq while
searching for the s, GNOME starts taking screenshots of the current
window -- I end up with 10--15 of "save screenshot" dialogs that I
have to close one-by-one.)

> also, from the menus, if i select Apps->Accessories->Take
> Screenshot, that operation appears to work but i have no idea where it
> would have stored the image -- there is no feedback whatever.

If it didn't pop up a dialog showing a thumbnail of the screenshot and
asking where to save it, this means it crashed. I can reproduce:

$ gnome-screenshot --interactive

(select "Current window", hit Enter)

The program 'gnome-screenshot' received an X Window System error.
This probably reflects a bug in the program.
The error was 'BadWindow (invalid Window parameter)'.
(Details: serial 4255 error_code 3 request_code 15 minor_code 0)
(Note to programmers: normally, X errors are reported asynchronously;
that is, you will receive the error a while after causing it.
To debug your program, run it with the --sync command line
option to change this behavior. You can then get a meaningful
backtrace from your debugger if you break on the gdk_x_error() function.)

> thoughts?

Use GIMP for taking screenshots: File -> Create -> Screenshot...
Or some other tool.

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