Capturing display screen in Ubuntu 12.04 based on MacBook Pro laptop
 

I would like to capture the screen in Ubuntu 12.04 based on a MacBook Pro laptop, which does not feature a screenprint key. Any help will be much appreciated.

Julianvb

1) what is Linux 12.04?
2) generally it depends on a window system you use, but try scrot or anything… anyway maybe this would be helpful: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php...g_a_screenshot

Type

in terminal and see what happens.

http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/...ots_with_scrot


or

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l4WmdpoNbCg

If you have ImageMagick installed, then this command will do a full screen capture after a 5 second delay
and this command will capture a single window selected with a mouse click

Answer to Post #2:

Sorry. I meant Ubuntu 12.04 instead of Linux 12.04.

Julianvb

Hi, Ygrex, rockytnji and Allend,

I am happy to report that tonight I somehow re-discovered a very user-friendly screen-capturing program in Ubuntu 12.04 via Dash Home > Recent Apps > Screenshot. I works very well in capturing a screen or window. This seems to be the only way I can invoke it in my MacBook Pro-based Ubuntu 12.04 system. I think it is a GUI-only program since it cannot be called from the command line.

Thanks very much for your help.

Julianvb