


This script depends upon xwd which is provided in (all?) X11 toolkits and also convert provided by (well at least on my Ubuntu 17.10 desktop install) the graphicsmagick-imagemagick-compat package: #!/bin/bash I need a single-shot turn-key solution that does not require me to do the same editing operation repeatedly during my workday. This is a non-answer to this question, because it has extra "finger burden" to crop the resulting image file down to the area of the dynamic popup using a tool such as Gimp. I can call it using: screenshot.sh -d 5 -rootĪnd it will allow me 5 seconds to fiddle with the misbehaving X window that pops up some dynamic (transient?) window and takes a full root window screenshot. This script below is my workaround to misbehaved windows that do a "root X window grab". Launch it from terminal with spectacle or from menu launcher.īelow is a non-answer so that I can reference it elsewhere:.
NODA SCREENSHOT PATH INSTALL
Install it with sudo apt-get install kde-spectacle.You can use KDE Spectacle as DK Bose suggested: Open terminal and type sleep 10 & gnome-screenshot -clipboard here and click Enter.If you do not want to make screencast you can use the following: In 17.10 and 18.04 LTS it works only from terminal - so I reported bug 1751141 to launchpad. In 16.04 LTS, 17.10 and 18.04 LTS delay is disabled when mate-screenshot ran interactively ( mate-screenshot -i) - reported bug 1751245 to launchpad about this. On 16.04 LTS you can use mate-screenshot - it has delay in GUI (launched by mate-screenshot -i -a) and in terminal: mate-screenshot -area -delay 10 bug 1751157 to launchpad about option conflict in.bug 1751161 to launchpad about disabled "Grab after a delay of." in.It seems that GNOME developers removed this functionality from gnome-screenshot - it does not work on 14.04 LTS, 16.04 LTS, 17.10 and 18.04 LTS) - I reported:
