Print Screen not working in 5.2.8

Problems and successes with specific brands/models of printers
Post Reply
Message
Author
ivbsanjay
Posts: 2
Joined: Fri 25 Oct 2013, 17:01

Print Screen not working in 5.2.8

#1 Post by ivbsanjay »

We are unable to get the print screen key to work in Puppy?

User avatar
Bert
Posts: 1103
Joined: Fri 30 Jun 2006, 20:09

Re: Print Screen

#2 Post by Bert »

ivbsanjay wrote:We are unable to get the print screen key to work in Puppy?
Basically yes.
I asked the same question many months ago and, if I remember correctly, the answer was that it's not completely impossible, but also not very easy to accomplish.
The fact that it's still not implemented by default in Puppy kind of shows that it's not that trivial.

But Puppy has a great assortment of screen print utilities.
Just browse the graphics forum in Additional software.

Or, even better, do a search in that part of the forum with 'screen print'

But first look in the menu of your Puppy: under graphics, depending on what Puppy you're using, you'll find at least one screen-shot utility.
( mtPaint screenshot, Screeny, TAS, PupSnap, etc, etc..)

But in essence, I agree, it would be wonderful if that key would become usable in Puppy.

Hope this helps.
[url=http://pupsearch.weebly.com/][img]http://pupsearch.weebly.com/uploads/7/4/6/4/7464374/125791.gif[/img][/url]
[url=https://startpage.com/do/search?q=host%3Awww.murga-linux.com%2F][img]http://i.imgur.com/XJ9Tqc7.png[/img][/url]

User avatar
Monsie
Posts: 631
Joined: Thu 01 Dec 2011, 07:37
Location: Kamloops BC Canada

Print Screen not working in 5.2.8

#3 Post by Monsie »

Have a look at the post by jamesbond over at the Fatdog thread and then see my post in this thread as a follow up for making this work with a specific application (in this case, mtpaint) with Joe's Window Manager as the desktop environment and Wary Puppy. This should also work in Lucid Puppy, though I haven't tested it.

Monsie
My [u]username[/u] is pronounced: "mun-see". Derived from my surname, it was my nickname throughout high school.

User avatar
shinobar
Posts: 2672
Joined: Thu 28 May 2009, 09:26
Location: Japan
Contact:

Print Screen

#4 Post by shinobar »

The Precise-550JP and most of Japanese editions enable the Print Screen key.
I don't know on other window managers, but it is easy with jwm.

Insert next entry in /root/.jwm/jwmrc-personal.
Or for global, /root/.jwmrc and /etc/xdg/templates/_root_.jwmrc.

Code: Select all

<Key keycode="111">exec:mtpaint -s</Key>
Downloads for Puppy Linux [url]http://shino.pos.to/linux/downloads.html[/url]

User avatar
shinobar
Posts: 2672
Joined: Thu 28 May 2009, 09:26
Location: Japan
Contact:

Print Screen for openbox

#5 Post by shinobar »

For open box, edit the file /root/.config/openbox/rc.xml, insert next lines before '</keyboard>'.

<keybord>
(snip)

Code: Select all

    <keybind key="0x6F">
      <action name="Execute">
        <startupnotify>
          <enabled>true</enabled>
          <name>Print Screen</name>
        </startupnotify>
        <command>mtpaint -s</command>
      </action>
    </keybind>
</keybord>
Downloads for Puppy Linux [url]http://shino.pos.to/linux/downloads.html[/url]

User avatar
Bert
Posts: 1103
Joined: Fri 30 Jun 2006, 20:09

#6 Post by Bert »

Thank you Shinobar!
[url=http://pupsearch.weebly.com/][img]http://pupsearch.weebly.com/uploads/7/4/6/4/7464374/125791.gif[/img][/url]
[url=https://startpage.com/do/search?q=host%3Awww.murga-linux.com%2F][img]http://i.imgur.com/XJ9Tqc7.png[/img][/url]

User avatar
vicmz
Posts: 1262
Joined: Sun 15 Jan 2012, 22:47

Print Screen key

#7 Post by vicmz »

Attachments
printscreen-works-obp.png
(128.32 KiB) Downloaded 485 times
[url=http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=76948]Puppy Linux en español[/url]

Post Reply