Capturing display screen in Ubuntu 12.04 based on MacBook Pro laptop

julianvb · 05-04-2014, 01:20 PM

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

Ygrex · 05-04-2014, 06:53 PM

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

rokytnji · 05-04-2014, 06:54 PM

Type

Code:

scrot

in terminal and see what happens.

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

or

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

allend · 05-04-2014, 07:10 PM

If you have ImageMagick installed, then this command will do a full screen capture after a 5 second delay

Code:

sleep 5; import -window root ~/Desktop/snapshot.png

and this command will capture a single window selected with a mouse click

Code:

import -window $(xwininfo | awk '/Window id/{printf "%d", $4}') ~/Desktop/wsnapshot.png

julianvb · 05-05-2014, 12:05 AM

Answer to Post #2:

Sorry. I meant Ubuntu 12.04 instead of Linux 12.04.

Julianvb

julianvb · 05-05-2014, 02:58 AM

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