On Mon, 1 Jul 2002 13:12:14 -0400 et <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: <snip> > On Monday 01 July 2002 12:48 pm, you wrote:Thanks for your helpful > response, et. <snip> > However, as I followed the scenario you described, I found it to be very > slow and cumbersome by comparison with the very simple two-step > procedure that I have been used to: (1) press Print Screen, (2) click on > "Paste" in any target application. > > What you described involves more than 11 separate steps ... > and then I still don't know what to do > to crop the captured image to just the portion I want: > (1) Click on K > (2) move mouse cursor up to multimedia > (3) move mouse cursor across to graphics > (4) move mouse cursor across and down to Gimp > (5) click on Gimp > (6) click on file > (7) move cursor down to acquire > (8) move cursor across to screenshot > (9) click on screenshot > (10) click on whole screen > (11) click on OK
To make a long story short, you cannot press the PrintScreen button to put an image of the desktop to the clipboard and then paste it into any other application with GNU/Linux. However, if you invest just a short amount of time, I have already provided you with a solution that will be more efficient than your Windows habit. Copying the text of the bash script I provided will require one mouse click-and-drag, and pasting it into a new document may require a click to focus your text editor's window, and a middle-button click to paste. Then a Save as and call it capture.sh (or c.sh, or whatever). I believe that should be about 5-6 mouse clicks and 4-10 keyboard strokes, depending on what you name the file. Now you have to make the file executable. You can do that by "chmod +x filename", or KDE probably lets you right-click it and check the executable bit. So, possibly 5 or 6 clicks for that. Next, set up a keyboard shortcut to run the script. I'm not sure how you do that in KDE. When you run the script, you will get a screenshot and, if you uncommented the last line of the script, it will automatically open in GIMP for editing. I'll just suggest that it might take 40 keyboard strokes/mouse clicks to get the whole thing going. But you can then do it with just one command. You won't have to press PrintScreen, then click to focus your graphics editor, then Control-v to paste it (4 keystrokes). Just think, in 10 short screencaptures, you will have broken even! Of course if you want to paste directly into a WP, this won't work. But it sounds like you take the screencapture directly into a graphics editor. > Now, I want to crop the image I have captured to just one > small element (not a window) of the screen. > > How does one "crop" a captured image with Gimp? Use the tool that looks like a knife. Now, if you're not willing to invest those roughly 40 actions, then you can't be helped. (You could even skip the step where you have to crop the image if you just select the window or region you want when you do the capture in the first place. Just remove the "-window root" from the script I provided, That will provide you with the crosshairs to select the region. Unfortunately, you'll have to import the graphic in your WP, but I think it's still more efficient that way.) HTH, Todd -- Todd Slater Too often we give our children answers to remember rather than problems to solve. (Roger Lewin)
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