How To Take A Screenshot Of Your Login Screen

How To Take A Screenshot Of Your Login Screen

Normally you use a screenshot tool to take screenshots of your Linux desktop. Unfortunately, this doesn't work if you want to take a screenshot of your login prompt. This tutorial explains how you can take a screenshot of your Linux desktop login screen nevertheless.

I have written an article about how to customize the Ubuntu login screen. After you edit the login screen, you may want to share your work on blogs and forums. However, you simply cannot just press the print-screen button to take screenshot of the login screen in Ubuntu. To do so, you can use a workaround command to preview the login screen and take screenshot of it.

This is the oddest thing I've ever seen. When I take a screenshot of a window or my desktop, I instead receive an older copy of the window or screenshot. What I mean, is that once I take a screenshot using gnome screenshot tool, I will forever get that screenshot when I try and take another. I'm running with the open drivers, under and amd/ati card.

I'm using Ubuntu 12.04 .

Using N4 with 4.2.1

When I use the built in screenshot (power button + holding volume down) - the screenshot looks awesome. But when I send it as an mms to my friend (who also has the exact same phone) the picture is significantly degraded.

The same happens when he sends me a screenshot.

Is this an issue with my MMS settings?

I'd like to add that in order to take a screenshot of the login screen (gdm or kdm for example) and you haven't logged in yet, executing the above will only work as root user.

trusktr https://bbs.archlinux.org/profile.php?id=34157

2012-09-04T19:37:07Z

Most popular tool to take screenshots on gnome desktop But there a lot of tips and tricks for taking screenshots for your desktop, windows, and your active running applications you might not familiar with it.

If you want to take a screenshot of a remote Linux desktop, all you need is to change the command below to match the remote desktop you wish to take a screenshot of: DISPLAY=”:0.0″ import -window root screenshot.png

These commands turn the screen off

Code: xset dpms force standby xset dpms force off also my screen is not dimming on idle like it is set to

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