tinycore screenshot

[ejames82]

what is the best way to provide a screenshot with tinycore (here at this forum, mostly)?

i notice when clicking "Additional Options" below (great feature), that an attachment can be included (i'm hoping this can be a screenshot). 

1. how is the screenshot captured?
 a. is there a special program/app required?
 b. is there a special procedure?

2. once the screenshot is obtained, is there any other "prepping" that needs to be done to it?

thanks, as always.

[tinypoodle]

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screenshot.sh
should be in menu under "Tools"... (unless there was any change about since 2.10)

[ejames82]

tinypoodle,

you mean right-click the desktop>system tools>screenshot.  the tool automatically takes the screenshot when "screenshot" is clicked.  i noticed that i, indeed, have a screenshot saved in my home folder.

1. are there any other screen capture utilities?
2. are there any tools to view the screenshot with?

thanks for the reply.

[tinypoodle]

1. e.g. xvidcap can do stills and videos
2. any pic viewer should do, e.g. flpicsee. Hint: most every graphical browsers can render .png as well, e.g. on console i would often just use links

[ejames82]

tinypoodle,

i used gimp1 to open the screenshot.  gimp>file>open>select screenshot>ok.
gimp1 is in the appbrowser.

i'll be checking out your programs. 
doing it right now.  thanks.

[beerstein]

Hi: I think in TC 3.0 there is a built in screen shot application under the
utilities bar. After clicking this the image is in th /home somwhere as a .png
I still have to find a good and compact viewer for these images.

tuxpaint may work, I also saw the names: xvidcap and fkpicsee here in this post

are there others?

[aus9]

hi

the "best" is a relative answer ....for me....its the app called mtpaint.....as It takes a full screenshot and can be editted to select an area and save in different image formats.

b) You can also click on File -> Actions .....and take a time based screenshot

mtpaint is smaller than Gimp

It may not be better than gimp because I do not know if you prefer command mode...or graphical.....and if graphical....if you have need to download smaller or larger with more features

good luck

[tinypoodle]

or something like

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sleep 5 && mtpaint -s & exit
might work too 
(no mtpaint here atm to test myself...)
value of secs to sleep in order to delay screenshot can be chosen as desired to adjust windows etc.

[curaga]

Well, since this is turning to a hints'n'tips thread...

When I want to take a shot of a specific window, I'm way too lazy to crop it myself. I have Xorg, netpbm installed, so I just do

xwd | xwdtopnm | pnmtopng > pic

and click on the window I want in the pic. Nothing else, no cropping necessary. No window borders either unless an option is given to xwd.

[tinypoodle]

Ok, as i have Xorg installed at the moment (but running Xvesa anyway) that inspired me to try similar with nconvert which is shipped with xnview (unfortunately not free software  )

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xwd > pic.xwd && nconvert -o pic.png -out png pic.xwd && rm -f pic.xwd
Result is a pic of the window clicked on with window borders - I wonder why  

[curaga]

Must be my wm, now that I checked man xwd it's the other way around, borders on by default and an option to disable.

[tinypoodle]

Ooops, silly me...  

curaga, your initial post was absolutely correct, apologies.

Thing is that flpicsee which I used to view the result is so minimal it consists only of wm title and borders, and i mistook latter as belonging to the pic - when they do belong to the viewer  
(e.g. a snapshot of a rox-filer window would look exactly as a rox-filer window per se when viewed in flpicsee)

[aus9]

tinypoodle

I do not want to boost your ego but (heh heh)

your "sleep" command works in case you need confirmation

( I had to degrade my snapshot to fit the forum limit of 192 kilobytes) not your faullt

love it

[tinypoodle]

Or perhaps change to a less complex background before making screenshot?
Attached screenshot (made with TC base screenshot.sh) is less than 49KB, though resolution is only 1024x600 which is also a factor for size.

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[ejames82]

the stuff you guys are doing is WAY over my head.

a little bit of "click here, then click here" would be great, because i think it would take me a month to figure out how to do what you guys are doing.