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anthillsocial

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[SOLVED] "scrot -s" Not triggering via .xbindkeysrc

I'm trying to get "scrot -s" to trigger which I click "Cntrl+Alt+4" however it doesn't work when the "-s"  - meaning select area of the screen with the mouse - is added.

In .xbindkeysrc I have:

# Screenshot of a section of a screen (Cntrl+Alt+4)
"scrot -sh"
      m:0xc + c:13
      Control+Alt+4

Any ideas?

Last edited by anthillsocial (2013-03-19 13:35:46)

skanky

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Re: [SOLVED] "scrot -s" Not triggering via .xbindkeysrc

-h is the help option, so you just get the help returned.
Try opening a terminal and running it in that. Once that's working, you could try the working command without one.

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anthillsocial

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Re: [SOLVED] "scrot -s" Not triggering via .xbindkeysrc

Thanks for that - though perhaps should have elaborated more.

"scrot -s" works perfectly from the terminal, its only when its triggered via a key bind that it fails.

skanky

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Re: [SOLVED] "scrot -s" Not triggering via .xbindkeysrc

Thanks for that - though perhaps should have elaborated more.

"scrot -s" works perfectly from the terminal, its only when its triggered via a key bind that it fails.

Your code snippet above has the -h option, is that a typo?
I'm not sure how scrot works, but you may need to launch a terminal that runs the command:

# Screenshot of a section of a screen (Cntrl+Alt+4)
"urxvtc -e bash -i -c 'scrot -sh'"
      m:0xc + c:13
      Control+Alt+4

Completely untested.

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Trilby

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Re: [SOLVED] "scrot -s" Not triggering via .xbindkeysrc

Scrot does not need a terminal - but the "-sh" option will not take a screen shot, it will simply display the help information.  I suspect scrots help info is dumped to tty1, or .Xsession-errors, or to wherever your output from X is dumped.

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anthillsocial

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Re: [SOLVED] "scrot -s" Not triggering via .xbindkeysrc

RE: Your code snippet above has the -h option, is that a typo?
Ahh now I see what you mean - yes the -h option was a typo it actually reads:

# Screenshot of a section of a screen (Cntrl+Alt+4)
"urxvtc -e bash -i -c 'scrot -s'"
      m:0xc + c:13
      Control+Alt+4

Here's a bit more info elaborating what I mentioned above:

- Doesn't trigger: scrot -s
- Does trigger: scrot
- Does trigger: scrot '%Y-%m-%d_$wx$h.png' -e 'mv $f ~/Desktop'

So there seems to be something going on with the "-s" option

[EDIT] Oops. Have read the post properly. Will try suggestion then properly respond....

Last edited by anthillsocial (2013-03-19 12:26:35)

anthillsocial

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Re: [SOLVED] "scrot -s" Not triggering via .xbindkeysrc

Scrot does not need a terminal - but the "-sh" option will not take a screen shot, it will simply display the help information.  I suspect scrots help info is dumped to tty1, or .Xsession-errors, or to wherever your output from X is dumped.

Just tested with urxvtc and that doesn't work either. It seems that scrot isn't being allowed to pause until mouse input is received.

Last edited by anthillsocial (2013-03-19 12:49:44)

Trilby

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Re: [SOLVED] "scrot -s" Not triggering via .xbindkeysrc

Send the output somewhere useful.

"scrot -s > ~/scrot_error 2>&1"

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anthillsocial

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Re: [SOLVED] "scrot -s" Not triggering via .xbindkeysrc

Send the output somewhere useful.

"scrot -s > ~/scrot_error 2>&1"

It outputs:

giblib error: couldn't grab keyboard:Resource temporarily unavailable

skanky

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Re: [SOLVED] "scrot -s" Not triggering via .xbindkeysrc

Try putting a sleep of a second or so before the call to scrot:

sleep 1
scrot -s

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anthillsocial

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Re: [SOLVED] "scrot -s" Not triggering via .xbindkeysrc

skanky - fantastic - that sorted it!
Thanks everyone.