[SOLVED!] Screen Grab i cant grab screen with START MENU on it.

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[SOLVED!] Screen Grab i cant grab screen with START MENU on it.

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Hi
Im not begginer but i write here becouse problem is cosmetic, but i rly dont have idea how to bite this... :)

I like ScreenGrab App.

All work great becouse i configure it like this:

Print Screen give me full desktop window + puppy UI.

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and

ctrl+ alt + Priny Screen give me only app window here firefox without puppy UI.

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I have only one problem, when i press start menu. Print screen is OFF. When start menu is active, then i cant take any desktop photo, becouse my Print Screen key and other combination dont work. Any idea how i can grab screen with start menu on it?

I wont grabb Screen like on this Fossa app + start menu... on screen.
https://th.bing.com/th/id/R.0138a440011 ... ImgRaw&r=0
Now i rly cant do that. I rly dont wont change print screen app.

Screen grab UI looks like this :) i can copy (to clipboard - ctrl+V to paste example on discord) or save print screen this is rly great app.

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Re: Screen Grab i cant grab screen with START MENU on it.

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I use TaS to make screenshots. If i want take a picture with menu opened (Puppy menu or any application) etc. i start TaS with delay eg. 5 seconds and in these 5 seconds i have to open menu to include it on screenshot.

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Re: Screen Grab i cant grab screen with START MENU on it.

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Sorry zuzia, you'll have to provide us with more information. Which Puppy? Where did you get ScreenGrab? Is it this one, https://oldforum.puppylinux.com/viewtop ... 8b#p419775?

If so, it was compiled 12 years ago by vovchik who AFAIK hasn't been around for 6 years and didn't become a member of this Forum. So the chances are slim that anyone is going to add a feature to or solve a bug in that application.

FWIW, I use TAS (Take-a-shot), which AFAIK can be installed via PPM in any Puppy; or if not can be downloaded from this link, https://www.forum.puppylinux.com/viewto ... =TAS#p2421 along with several other capture programs. It can capture Full-Screen, Window or region; and you can set the delay from 0 to 60 seconds, more than sufficient time to avoid capturing the menu. I use it often enough that I placed a launcher on my Taskbar.

Before switching to TAS I used mtpaint-scapshot. mtpaint is builtin to most (all?) Puppys and a screenshot can be triggered by pressing the PRT-SCN key. That can be inconvenient. So 01micko published the mtpaint-scapshot addon which gave it similar capabilities to those which TAS subsequently provided. I've attached a pet.

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After taking a screenshot, immediately, automatically, mtpaint is opened for editing it. But, of course, you can immediately close it.

I switched to TAS because immediately after a snapshot is taken it will offer to take another. It also has a 'Burst Mode' which I haven't quite figured out. Rather, when needed, I uses TAG (Take a Gif) you can obtain from here, https://oldforum.puppylinux.com/viewtop ... 5#p1056555,

Edit: or now here, https://www.forum.puppylinux.com/viewto ... 953#p67953

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Re: Screen Grab i cant grab screen with START MENU on it.

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Hi this is from ppm.

All here + my puppy bionic 8

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Official help site. You can run from help menu in program. But i check and any info there. This is cross platform then probably bug. Or just my luck : )

I rly like that apps, but bug looking like this when start menu is active program not work with any keyboard shortcut, and also i cant use auto print screen after example 10s. I try all. But app work rly good, i not need more only that one bug is little anoing. I install it from bionic puppy package manager version like above. I use it 1 year but last time i wont screen my start menu and i find that bug.

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Re: Screen Grab i cant grab screen with START MENU on it.

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puppy_apprentice wrote: Wed Sep 28, 2022 2:26 pm

I use TaS to make screenshots. If i want take a picture with menu opened (Puppy menu or any application) etc. i start TaS with delay eg. 5 seconds and in these 5 seconds i have to open menu to include it on screenshot.

Ok then i change time to more time and test again. SG also can take Screen Shot after some time.

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Re: Screen Grab i cant grab screen with START MENU on it.

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[SOLVED!] :)

I change timer to 10s from 5s and all work i think was bugged but now all work awesome :) Thank YOU! Stupid bug do from me super dumb person :D

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Im so happy i not need change that app, coz i like her very much :D

Thanks all i give you my greatefull hand!

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Re: [SOLVED!] Screen Grab i cant grab screen with START MENU on it.

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BTW. This is not a bug it is just the opened menu is trapping the keys pressed.

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Re: [SOLVED!] Screen Grab i cant grab screen with START MENU on it.

Post by Zuzia »

Yes i know that, but good we find way to do screenshot with menu anyway. : ) i try this before that subject with defoult 5s timer but after changes all works, now also with defoult timer. If all work before i never wite here.

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