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Old 05-17-2007, 08:23 AM   #1
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Smile taking screenshot in GNOME with menus opened up

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I have GNOME-2.18.I'd like to take a screenshot of Desktop with the menu opened for eg; Applications>Accessories like.
Now i tried printscreen in kbd,but it doesnt react.also i launched gnome-screenshot and again tried clicking its button to grab screenshot with menus open.but i cant do that without closing the menus
Hope some workarounds are there ..waiting
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Old 05-17-2007, 08:36 AM   #2
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Launch gnome-screenshot from the terminal, with the --delay option:
Code:
gnome-screenshot --delay 5
Will take the screenshot after 5 seconds. You can open menus etc in this time.

I hope this helps
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Old 05-17-2007, 02:10 PM   #3
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