Just arrived in this universe as a Windows-refugee a couple of days ago. Here´s my first question:

I´m looking for a utility which is able to take multiple jpg-screenshots by using a hotkey and storing them in a predefined folder. (i.e. to document events in a gaming environment (Flightgear flightsimulator).

I´ve found threads about ksnapshot and a Gnome-app called screenshooter but they seem to allow only manually induced single shots. (Not very efficient for taking shots while playing real time simulations)

Thanx in advance.
Johnny

PS: Using SuSE 9.0 with KDE 3.1

Welcome to LQ Johnny.

If the game you're running is in a window (ie it is not running fullscreen) then you can bind a key to a command using XBindKeys (also get XBindKeys_config - it helps). On my setup, I have the PrintScreen button bound to import -window root ~/files/images/screens/"screenshot-`date +%Y%m%d%H%M.%S`.jpg" - this saves the whole screen as a .jpg file in /home/gsewell/files/images/screens with the the name of screenshot-yearmonthdayhourminute.second.jpg

Hope this helps.

Thats great Thymox.. I learned something new today....

Thanks, Thymox.

I´ll give it a try, seems rather "simple"
After I´ve ploughed myself through the agenda of primary tasks to tackle:
Get the printer driver working with foomatic
Get the scanner running
Get Samba running
Compile the Flightgear files from scratch.
Well, get a minor idea of what´s going on here

BTW, one question rises a second: what if the game DOES run in full window mode?

Full screen. Not window. Me being pedantic, but there is a subtle difference.

If the game is running in FS mode, then you will (most likely) have to rely on any method the game uses for taking shots. I have not tried this with anything other than Doom/Doom2 (I am replaying some really old wads I found on a CD - nothing like nostalgia) and it didn't work in that. The problem is, as I see it, that there is no 'root screen' when running games in FS, so you can't import it.

Good luck.