Add a print screen button functionality through .jwmrc

[lior2b]

This is very easy to accomplish and can supply an answer to a frequently asked question. The "Print Screen" button on the keyboard isn't being used by Puppy. By adding this entry to the .jwmrc file we can use it to capture a screenshot.

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<Key key="Print">exec:mtpaintsnapshot.sh</Key>

My suggestion is to add the above entry to .jwmrc and to take the following entry out of the menu:

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<Program label="mtPaint-snapshot screen capture" icon="mini-camera.xpm">exec mtpaintsnapshot.sh</Program> 

[Flash]

I like it the way it is because, once you find that you use mtPaint for screenshots, it's easy to figure out and control what happens when you take a screen shot. You can easily find and change where the screen shot is put, and then you can crop and resize the screen shot, all using mtPaint. I've never used the print screen button in Windows because it doesn't seem to do anything, or rather whatever it does is hidden, and I wouldn't know what to expect of the "print" button in Puppy.

[raffy]

Cool and essential (for people used to it ). Another essential is the use of the Win___s key - Mandrake is already using it.

[BarryK]

Thanks Lior, I've added that line to .jwmrc, and leaving in both ways of doing it.

[Flash]

Is it possible to bind any key on the keyboard to an executable in Puppy (I hope I'm using the right terms.) For instance, I have volume up and down, mute, fast forward and back, and many other hotkeys on my keyboard that do nothing in Puppy. Is there any way to see what the keyboard is sending to Puppy when I push these keys?

[MU]

yes, run "xev" in a console which is part of puppy since 107 or 108.

Move the mouse over the xev-window, then hit the keys.
this will tell you something like

KeyPress event, serial 28, synthetic NO, window 0x3400001,
root 0x41, subw 0x3400002, time 66703015, (45,54), root:(47,453),
state 0x0, keycode 46 (keysym 0x6c, l), same_screen YES,

Important is "keycode 46"
Some Desktops or additional programs allow to bind actions to these keycodes.

Mark

[MU]

here is an easy grafical tool:
http://www.murga.org/~puppy/viewtopic.php?p=42590#42590