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How to take a screen shot?

Hi,

I'm using Mandriva Linux 2009 with KDE, and I would like to know how to take a screen shot of the entire desktop as well as just individual windows. In Windows XP you do this by pressing the PrintScrn or Alt-PrintScrn buttons and then paste it into MS Paint/Photoshop/etc.

How do I do this in Mandriva?

Thanks

In KDE, Print Screen by itself should do it. This certainly works in KDE 3.5.

Apparently it doesn't in KDE 4 in 2009.

Try running ksnapshot from a terminal, then.

Thanks, that worked, though not as convenient.

Yeah, Print Screen should work to open KSnapshot though. Perhaps file a bug for this with the Mandriva developers, if one hasn't been filed already.

It's a bug in KDE4.1, which, I believe, has been resolved in KDE4.2

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=160892

Jim

You can add the unofficial KDE 4.2.1 media sources for Mandriva 2009.0 to your urpmi database then install the updated packages.

For i586 systems execute the following commands (as root):

Code:

urpmi.addmedia KDE-4.2.1 --update ftp://ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/stable/4.2.1/Mandriva/2009.0/RPMS/i586 with media_info/hdlist.cz



urpmi.addmedia KDE-4.2.1-noarch ftp://ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/stable/4.2.1/Mandriva/2009.0/RPMS/noarch with media_info/hdlist.cz

to add the sources.

For x86_64 systems the commands are as follows:

Code:

urpmi.addmedia KDE-4.2.1 --update ftp://ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/stable/4.2.1/Mandriva/2009.0/RPMS/x86_64 with media_info/hdlist.cz



urpmi.addmedia KDE-4.2.1-noarch ftp://ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/stable/4.2.1/Mandriva/2009.0/RPMS/noarch with media_info/hdlist.cz

With the new sources added, switch to a console screen (any of CTRL+ALT+F1 through F6 will do it).

Log in as root then exit your Xorg session by executing

Code:

telinit 3

To install KDE 4.2.1, execute the following:

Code:

urpmi task-kde4-minimal task-kde4

Consent to installing the myriad additional packages on which these packages depend.

If you need the devel packages for KDE 4.2.1 as well, they can be installed with:

Code:

urpmi task-kde4-devel

Again, consent to the installation of the many packages on which this meta-package depends.

When the installation is complete, start a new Xorg session with:

Code:

telinit 5

Xorg will start. Log in as usual.

HTH,

Thanks. The system does not have internet access though. Can I just download the rpm directly? If so what are the ones to download?

another simple way, just use the command
'import -window root snap.jpg' (or png or bmp etc..) or you can replace the -window root with a specific window and get a shot of just that window
or the GIMP can also take shots of teh whole screen or a single window too

The package you install depends on most of the other packages in the repo. You would have to get all of them and that would require a broadband Internet connection. Sorry . . .