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inukaze

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Registered: 2014-07-31

Posts: 46

xfce4-screenshooter save without manually put filename ?

Hi there, someone know if possible take an screenshot from active windows and save it without asking filename ???

ToZ

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From: Canada

Registered: 2011-06-02

Posts: 11,486

Re: xfce4-screenshooter save without manually put filename ?

xfce4-screenshooter doesn't provide that functionality, but you can use xdotool to send an enter key to the window (Save is the default button). Something like:

xfce4-screenshooter -f -s ~/Pictures & sleep 0.5 && xdotool search "Save screenshot as..." windowactivate --sync key Return

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inukaze

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Registered: 2014-07-31

Posts: 46

Re: xfce4-screenshooter save without manually put filename ?

Thank you very much. i make it a mini-script :

#!/bin/bash

CARPETA="$HOME/Imágenes/Captura"
cd "$CARPETA"
for f in *_*.png
do
    xfce4-screenshooter -w -s $CARPETA & sleep 0.5 && xdotool search "Guardar la captura como..." windowactivate --sync key Return
done

The localization of my system is Spanish Venezuela. well some years ago when shutter be GTK2 . my script was :

#!/bin/bash

CARPETA="$HOME/Imágenes/Captura"
cd "$CARPETA"
for f in *_*.png
do
   num=${f%_*}
    shutter -f -e -n -o "${CARPETA}/${num}_$(date '+%d-%m-%Y.png')"
done

Because i took screenshoots with Filename-Number in sequence numbers, not by date xD. but this works with xfce4.

Well when Xfce be GTK3 i must migrate to LXQt or Enlightment, because the GTK3 never works with my pc

Last edited by inukaze (2017-03-23 00:40:19)