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- | ====== Using the application - xcfe4-screenshooter ====== | ||
- | * **[[#Taking a screenshot|Taking a screenshot]]** | ||
- | * **[[#After capturing|After capturing]]** | ||
- | * **[[#Host on Imgur|Host on Imgur]]** | ||
- | * **[[#Via command-line|Via command-line]]** | ||
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- | ===== Via the user interface ===== | ||
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- | To launch the application, | ||
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- | ===== Taking a screenshot ===== | ||
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- | <figure "Take a screenshot"> | ||
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- | ==== Region to capture ==== | ||
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- | The {gui> | ||
- | ? Entire screen | ||
- | ! Takes a screenshot of the whole screen as you see it. | ||
- | ? Active window | ||
- | ! Takes a screenshot of the active window. This will be the one that was active before this dialog appeared, or if you set a delay, the one that is active after the delay. | ||
- | ? Select a region | ||
- | ! Allows you to select a region to be captured by clicking and dragging a rectangle over the area of screen that you wish to capture, before releasing the mouse button. You can also press Ctrl while dragging to move the rectangle. | ||
- | ? Capturing the pointer | ||
- | ! The {gui> | ||
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- | ==== Delay before capturing ==== | ||
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- | The {gui> | ||
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- | ===== After capturing ===== | ||
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- | After pressing the {gui>OK} button a second window will be displayed: | ||
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- | ==== Preview ==== | ||
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- | The {gui> | ||
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- | ==== Action ==== | ||
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- | The {gui> | ||
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- | ? Save | ||
- | ! The {gui> | ||
- | ! Xfce4 Screenshooter is also able to save the screenshot to any remote file system supported by GVfs, such as FTP, SAMBA, SFTP, remote computers accessible via SSH... You just need to connect this remote file system using gvfs-connect or Gigolo and it will be available in the left column of the save dialog. | ||
- | ? Copy to the clipboard | ||
- | ! The {gui> | ||
- | ? Open with | ||
- | ! The {gui> | ||
- | ? Host on Imgur | ||
- | ! The {gui> | ||
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- | ==== Host on Imgur ==== | ||
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- | After selecting {gui> | ||
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- | <figure "Imgur image link"> | ||
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- | The dialog below will give you the links to the full size screenshot, the large thumbnail, the small thumbnails, as well examples of HTML, Markdown and BBcode to create a thumbnail pointing to the full size screenshot: | ||
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- | <figure "Imgur Embed into code dialog"> | ||
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- | The dialog below will give you the links to delete the image off of the Imgur website. The link will only be shown once. Make sure to save it if you think you might be deleting this image: | ||
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- | <figure "Imgur deletion dialog"> | ||
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- | Linking images of Imgure accounts is not currently supported. | ||
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- | ===== Via command-line ===== | ||
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- | Command line options allow you to take screenshots quickly. They also allow you to configure the Print Screen key on the upper right of most keyboards so that it takes screenshots. To do so, configure the key-bindings of your desktop environment so that it launches xfce4-screenshooter with one or several of the following options when the Prt Scrn key is pressed. | ||
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- | ==== The command line options ==== | ||
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- | ? The -w option | ||
- | ! The -w option allows you to take a screenshot of the active window. | ||
- | ? The -f option | ||
- | ! The -f option allows you to take a screenshot of the entire screen. | ||
- | ? The -r option | ||
- | ! The -r option allows you to select a region to be captured by clicking and dragging a rectangle over the area of screen that you wish to capture, before releasing the mouse button. | ||
- | ? The -d option | ||
- | ! The -d option followed by a positive integer allows you to set the delay before taking the screenshot when the -w, the -f or the -r option is given. | ||
- | ? The -s option | ||
- | ! The -s option followed by the path to an existing folder allows you to set where the screenshots are saved. This option only has an effect if the -w, the -f or the -r option is given. | ||
- | ? The -o option | ||
- | ! If the -o option is given, followed by an application name, the screenshot will be saved to the system' | ||
- | ? The -u option | ||
- | ! If the -u option is given, the screenshot will be hosted on Imgur. See above for more details. This option only has an effect if the -w, the -f or the -r option is given. | ||
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