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What is the Windows-10 --> snipping tool equivalent in Puppy Linux ?
It will be nice to have a tool to take snap-shots, where we can specify the Rectangular region which needs to be captured as a .jpg / .png image.
There are many was to take screen shots.
if you have mtpaint, you can type (paste) in a terminal:
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sleep 10 ; mtpaint -s
which gives you 10 seconds then takes a screen shot.
then an mtpaint window pops up.
you can process the picture if you like,
for example, you can select part of the picture
then click Image -> crop
then click File -> Save as
There are usually screen shot apps in the menu
and other apps can be installed.
like this:
Most Puppy versions have Take a Shot
It gives you some option for the image before you use it.
If you take a fullscreen image.
It gives you the option to edit the image in MtPaint.
There you can do all kinds of edits.
Do not know what Puppy you are using.
Some Puppy versions do this.
Try clicking on print screen key.
See if it takes an image of the monitor display and opens it in MtPaint.
I am using Raspberry Puppy 8.2.1.
Print screen key starts Take a Shot.
Thanks for that command code trick.
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sleep 10 ; mtpaint -sWhen I tried it.
It took a image of the screen display, but in the image is also the open terminal window.
Well, after clicking enter to activate the command code.
If you make sure to minimize the terminal window before the image is made. (have 10 seconds after clicking enter)
That works to not have the terminal in the image.
I am using FossaPup.9.5. I could not locate "Take a Shot" tool on my distro.
Print Screen Button "Prt sc" did not take a screen shot in my case. I may need to go through some configuration to enable the Key "Prt sc".
@williams2 : Thank You for this simple & elegant solution. 
Here is my Sample Image ...
This was just to show that there are many ways to do things, in Linux
You asked how to get rid of the terminal window.
I have the terminal window in another desktop, say desktop3.
Then I have 10 seconds to switch to say, desktop 1 and set things up.
You can change sleep 10 to sleep 20 if you want more time.
I'm pretty sure you can take a screen shot from the menu, using mtpaint.
And there are many screen shot apps.which can be installed, and may even be installed already.
For example:
Take A Shot viewtopic.php?t=7295
Take A Gif viewtopic.php?t=6914
you can drag an executable (script or binary) to the desktop
and right click the desktop icon and click Edit Item
to set a shortcut key. like prtsc or maybe Super+prtsc
Or you can run JWMdesk to configure a shortcut key.
To specifically answer your question, Take-a-shot. If it's not builtin already --look at Menu>Graphic-- every recent Puppy can install it via Menu>Setup>Puppy Package Manager. I use it so often that I have a launcher to it on my Taskbar.
The screenshot here, https://www.forum.puppylinux.com/viewto ... 990#p71990 shows its GUI. It is highly configurable. If you select Region, even if you set delay to '0', TAS will wait until you've selected two points of the region you want to capture: the top-left and bottom-right. When used it does not capture its own GUI*. You don't have to switch between virtual windows. Burst Mode will open the GUI again after each 'snapshot'.
If you want to create a gif, consider Take-a-Gif, https://www.forum.puppylinux.com/viewto ... 953#p67953
* I suspect the way that snapshot was created was to open TAS twice, then use the 2nd instance --set to capture a Window-- to capture the display of the first instance's GUI.
Morning:
I use a lot of this sort of programs to explain things to my pupils.
You can choose between:
HotShots, (really well done, althoug It can take some time to learn all its functionalities) RECOMENDED.
PupSnap Capturar Pantalla.- (other of my favourites.- It works nice and really easy to use)
Screeny Capture Windows and Full screen.- (Similar to the previous ones)
Ask mikeslr said.... Take a Gif (if u need gifs)
With them u can choose among choose to capture full screen, region, active region and save captures in your disk, any other usb folder, host....)
(I think u dont need captures, in other case, let me know....plz)
Have a nice day.
(ahhh.... you can configure them the way u want, and use them with keyboard shortcuts...
By default, in some puppy versions, the IMPR PANT key is linked with the default screenshot option and then u can edit it).
It's possible this puppy linux page resources can help u. I made it because I had difficulties to start developing when I started using Puppy.
https://www.protopage.com/pp4mnkt3am#Pu ... uPPy_Linux
Hope It helps.
HAVE A NICE WEEK, MY FRIEND,.
Thanks everyone for providing suggestions about the different ways one can take snapshot on Puppy desktop.