Questions tagged [screenshot]
This tag is for asking questions about taking screenshots in X.
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One of monitors turns black when taking screenshot with spectacle
When pressing a hotkey to capture a region, or when using the UI button, in Spectacle on Ubuntu 24.04 with KDE Neon (manully installed), one of my monitors turns black. I then have to replug it in or ...
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saving screenshots to ~/Pictures without a dialogue window using gnome-screenshot in Mint 22
I'm running a fresh install of Mint 22. When I take a screenshot (via keyboard shortcut), a dialog appears to ask what I want to do with it (copy to clipboard, save to file, which file name...).
I ...
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Flameshot does not work at Fedora Workstation 39
For Fedora Workstation 39, installed through VirtualBox, was installed Flameshot with the sudo dnf install flameshot command. Even when the OS was re-started, when through Show Apps for the Flameshot ...
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Spectacle missing features in 23 version
I have Spectacle 23.08.4
In 22 version, i remember that was possible select transparent color and highlight a rectangular region. in 23 i can't find transparent color in filling option..(attached ...
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Is there a way to capture screen when menu bars are opened?
On GNOME, I would like to capture a screen to show a special situation where I am on IDEA IntelliJ, when two menus are opened.
Main Window → Menu Bar 1 → Menu Bar 2
But as soon as I open one of these ...
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What is the replacement for the xwd utility (X Window Dump) with Wayland (or even RHEL9)
I have old software that uses the program xwd to save graphics files (to make movies, or figures in papers).
xwd exists as a utility in RHEL8 (and Rocky Linux 8) but in Rocky Linux 9 (and one presumes ...
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Full screen screenshot shows two neighbouring screens in one workspace for just one monitor, one of them an empty desktop
Could it be that Linux thinks by default that there is a second monitor, even if none is attached? I might also have forgotten about having changed the settings myself long time ago.
When I'm pressing ...
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How to allow apps to take screenshots in wayland when denied first time?
I used to use flameshot in my Fedora on Wayland(Gnome). When i first launched it via "flameshot gui" the system asked whether i allow flameshot to take screenshots or something like that i ...
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How to grab a screenshot of a 4x4 screen composite display?
I'm supervising a number of headless displays, and in order for me to see, remotely, what a screen is currently displaying without actually going there and look at it, I'm using scrot to take a ...
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How do I take screenshot in hyprland?
How do I take screenshot in Hyprland? I went through the Hyprland Wiki but I am not able to get to take screenshots in my archlinux.
How do I solve this?
How do I screenshot?
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"Unable to use GNOME Shell's builtin screenshot interface" when running cronjob
I have a script that takes screenshots and saves them to a GDrive-connected folder:
#!/bin/bash
PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games:/usr/local/games:/snap/...
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disable infobox when taking screenshots with xfce screenshooter
I want to take screenshots very quickly and when I press the print key xfce-screenshooter takes a screenshot and saves it automatically in my pictures folder. The problem is every time I take a ...
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Where does xfce4-screenshooter save by default?
I did a screenshot and also saved it, but I'm unable to figure out where it is. Looking into the official docs didn't tell me more and I also didn't find something quickly searching both the SE ...
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How to create a script that takes screenshots of all pages of a given PDF file
I want to create a script that takes a PDF file as input and takes a screenshot of every single page in actual size(100%). So it would look like this: custom_pdfcapture example.PDF After execution the ...
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Bash script to take a screenshot and upload it to a server every 1s
Operating system: Xubuntu
I'm trying to create a bash script that takes a screenshot of my screen and uploads the resulting file to a server. I tried many ways and even asked ChatGPT but still can't ...
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