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How to stop recording with Kazam
Using Kazam 1.4.5 on Debian stretch,
How to stop recording with Kazam?
The problem is: the icon on the task-bar does not allows any interaction, so I am looking for some shortcut with the keyboard, however, I could not find any.
The result is,…
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How can I easily make screenshots of screen regions on Arch Linux with i3 WM?
About a month ago I switched from Ubuntu 14.04 LTS to Arch and I'm quite happy with this decision. However, I miss some features with my new distro, especially Shift+printscr which in Unity allows selection of a screen region to be captured.
I use…
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Why doesn't pressing the "PrtScrn" button open Gnome's screenshot window?
There's a pretty detailed set of instructions for how to take screenshots under debian online. The first paragraph suggests that debian supports an inbuilt screenshot facility:
"Print Screen" key to take a screenshot of the whole screen.
Alt+"Print…
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How do I take a screen shot of my Xvfb buffer?
I'm using Amazon Linux. I want to run a headless chromium browser to use on my node.js Selnium tests. So I fire up my Xvfb server like so ...
if ! pidof /usr/bin/Xvfb; then Xvfb :0 -screen 5 1024x768x8 & fi
However, when I try and take a…
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Screenshot of X from tty
Using Xvfb I can launch an application and take a screenshot.
What I'm wondering about is how to capture from an existing (dormant) X session.
Say from tty or over ssh.
From what I understand windows are unmapped and does not exist to preserve…
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Record screen in X
How can I record all activity on the screen for a certain amount of time? I know about tools like xwd that capture a still image; can they be extended to record video? I'd prefer not using any fancy debian tools or ImageMagick utilities
evil.coder
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How to do a print screen or capture an area of the screen
Is there an equivalent of the Window's Print Screen + Paste (or better yet the Mac OS Cmd+Shift+4, Space) in Gnome?
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Capturing area of the screen without a Desktop Environment?
I'm running OpenSuse with dwm as a window manager. Since I made the switch from KDE, I haven't found a way to take a screenshot or even capture part of my screen.
Is there a way I can do this in a command-line environment?
n0pe
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Screenshot of non active window
How to take a screen shot of non active window? If I have 2 windows, I want to capture the screenshot of the one which is running in the background.
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Copying image from scrot into clipboard after capture
I've grown affection to scrot as a simple screenshot utility, but it lacks one thing i would greatly appreciate--a way to copy your capture and have it in your clipboard automatically.
I've added a line to .bash_aliases that automatically puts it in…
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How can I take a screenshot in LXDE using scrot and the Print Screen button on my keyboard?
How can I take a screenshot in LXDE using scrot and the Print Screen button on my keyboard? The Windows Manager appears to be Openbox.
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Taking a screenshot (within X)
How can I take a screenshot in X.org?
I am unsure if the Print Screen button will "just work" and I don't know how I would go about testing it.
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How do I change the location where screenshots are saved in Linux Mint 17 Cinnamon?
Pressing PrnScr "Print Screen" on the keyboard results in a screenshot being silently saved under /home/%user%/Pictures/
How can I change this location?
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Which data should be excluded from log files , error messages etc. if posted online?
What data should one erase from log files, error messages etc., if posting them as a screenshot so as not to expose sensitive information?
To narrow down my question: What should a Linux User be extra aware of hiding if posting screenshots of…
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Firefox won't work in headless mode
When I try to use FF headless to take a screenshot of a website by:
firefox -screenshot google.com
FF refuses to run with the following error message:
*** You are running in headless mode.
Firefox is already running, but is not responding. To open…
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