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#1921 Post by stu90 »

edoc wrote:
stu90 wrote:Theres a cool little command line screenshot application (scrot_0.8-11) that works well on lucid 5.1 in the ubuntu repository - maybe one to add to the lucid repo?
I find the mtPaint-screenshot and this command line option helpful but less efficient than a possible alternative.

Humble proposal/request: Can a keyboard key be scripted, or a bottom toolbar icon, that with a single press or click captures the screen?

Reasons:

1. In some cases any screen activity causes what it displayed to change or to disappear.

2. In some cases mtPaint or a command line app is too slow and what is to be captured has changed or disappeared.

3. Complicated seems unnecessary decades after "PrtSc" was added to every keyboard.

Am I missing something? Other than my mind, that is?
Not sure with mtpaint but with scrot just make a script in root call it scrot.

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#!/bin/sh
scrot
and add it to .jwmrc-tray in root

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<TrayButton label="screen">exec:/root/scrot</TrayButton>

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#1922 Post by edoc »

I printed that and will give it a try ... after I make lunch ... thanks!
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#1923 Post by chrismt »

playdayz wrote:
It isn't recording anything
You may need to right-click on the volume control and choose Full Window and scroll down and make sure the correct Capture inputs are selected and they have volume.
Yes, it worked. Thanks :)

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Lucid strong point

#1924 Post by tronkel »

These latest 3D games illustrate a big strength of Lucid i.e. the excellent Ubuntu compatibility. The extra libraries that contribute to the larger-than-normal ISO size is the reason that it's possible to take Ubuntu Lucid Lynx packages and easily (usually) build a pet from them that's simple to install for the average end-user (one click on the pet). So the extra 30MB is a good trade-off between size and usefulness.

If you are recommending a version of Puppy to anyone, this aspect of ease of creation of good pet packages, is a good reason for recommending Lucid Puppy.

If I get the time I'll look into getting the Flight Gear flight simulator running as a pet.
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#1925 Post by edoc »

Flight Simulator?

Awesome!
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flight simulator

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Is it possible to get flight simulator II to work?

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#1927 Post by DaveS »

Do you reckon it would be easy to get Xfce desktop up and running all?
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#1928 Post by Lobster »

Humble proposal/request: Can a keyboard key be scripted, or a bottom toolbar icon, that with a single press or click captures the screen?
as far as I know icewm does that with one of the icons bottom left - the quick options button - or did I imagine that?
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#1929 Post by Béèm »

edoc wrote:Humble proposal/request: Can a keyboard key be scripted, or a bottom toolbar icon, that with a single press or click captures the screen?
I know the principle, but never did it.
The command for the screen shot is mtpaint -s
You could assign this command to the printkey.
There is where my memory fails. I don't recall how to do it.
You need the keycode for the printkey for this.
You can find that code by executing xev in a terminal/console.
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#1930 Post by DaveS »

Béèm wrote:
edoc wrote:Humble proposal/request: Can a keyboard key be scripted, or a bottom toolbar icon, that with a single press or click captures the screen?
I know the principle, but never did it.
The command for the screen shot is mtpaint -s
You could assign this command to the printkey.
There is where my memory fails. I don't recall how to do it.
You need the keycode for the printkey for this.
You can find that code by executing xev in a terminal/console.
111 I think....
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#1931 Post by Béèm »

Yes, it's 111
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#1932 Post by stu90 »

Im not a coder so don't expect much but If anyone is interested i have made a little GUI for Scrot.
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#1933 Post by DaveS »

Blue theme. Includes very narrow window frame at top to take up minimal space
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Re: Lucid strong point

#1934 Post by 01micko »

tronkel wrote:These latest 3D games illustrate a big strength of Lucid i.e. the excellent Ubuntu compatibility. The extra libraries that contribute to the larger-than-normal ISO size is the reason that it's possible to take Ubuntu Lucid Lynx packages and easily (usually) build a pet from them that's simple to install for the average end-user (one click on the pet). So the extra 30MB is a good trade-off between size and usefulness.

If you are recommending a version of Puppy to anyone, this aspect of ease of creation of good pet packages, is a good reason for recommending Lucid Puppy.

If I get the time I'll look into getting the Flight Gear flight simulator running as a pet.
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I made a tool (see my signature) that makes it super easy for anyone to make a pet or sfs out of debs, if you want you can try it and maybe suggest where I can make improvements. debs2pkg or alien2puppy, the former is what it says and the latter supports Slack tgz and txz formats.

James C and tubeguy were busy making packages and James managed to get at least 1 in the repo, arora, a neat qt, webkit browser, and don570 liked it too.

Basically all it does is run a loop to unpack the debs in a folder, has an option to strip, has a pause to give you a chance to sort out the .desktop file and icon then runs mksquashfs or petget. It has a help option too, all command line but I tried to word it very simply with error messages if you make a boo boo and just a splash of colour for fun. (There is also a fun version of debs2pkg called debs2pkgfun which gives you a little reward at the end. courtesy of Pizzasgood). It may be a time saver for you, though I know you are professional programmer :wink:

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#1935 Post by edoc »

Would this work on a avi to dpg or wmv to avi converter app?

Or are those specialized and need particular attention to convert to Puppy?
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#1936 Post by tronkel »

@micko

I've been using alien2pet recently. It certainly does speed things up - much better than having to manually merge up package folder trees that sometimes can be complicated. One small mistake can be time-consuming to find within a large tree.

BTW any further progress with apt-get/Synaptic?
I reckon the problem is to do with the initial apt-get configuration.

There must be a script within the Ubuntu Ubiquity installer that handles this. Might be an idea to take a peek at this and adapt it for Lucid. I'll have another go at it when I get time.

Time? whatever that is LOL. I'm left here on my own for 2 weeks fending for myself, (cooking and stuff), since my wife has to help out at her old Uni putting the poor unfortunate students through their final exams.

If I survive the starvation, I let you know how I get on with apt-get..
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#1937 Post by 01micko »

edoc wrote:Would this work on a avi to dpg or wmv to avi converter app?

Or are those specialized and need particular attention to convert to Puppy?
Yes, however not everything works out of the box. Some apps need special tweaking for the Puppy environment. Why not give it a try and report back?

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sidenote: doc, alien2puppy might be best for you as I know you like playing with spup.. I successfully built avidemux in spup, only tweak was the .desktop file which the script can handle, manual tweaking though, I might try and make it automatic one day.
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#1938 Post by playdayz »

Hey tubeguy and stripe, Using Audacious--pet on page 128--I was able to 1) play music with my m-audio card on my big machine, and 2) play music with my extigy on my p3 thinkpad. Neither were the first cards--and nothing else would even acknowledge the extigy or play through the m-audio. What I did is discussed in the post with audacious. I bet it might play your turtle beach usb card tubeguy. With Audacious I do not need to block any cards--I can choose between them.

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#1939 Post by edoc »

I have switched over from spup 040 to Lucid 5.1, but thanks for the thought!
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#1940 Post by edoc »

stu90 wrote:Im not a coder so don't expect much but If anyone is interested i have made a little GUI for Scrot.
Image
Excellent!

Questions:

1. How did you do that?

2. What is the value of the various time settings? I have not yet seen an occasion where I wanted anything other than instant.

3. What do I do with the "111" to program the PrtSc key?
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