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lmello

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kind of [SOLVED] GNOME 3: How do I take a screenshot of a lockscreen?

Something is not quite right when the screen is locked - the displayed time numbers are chopped by a few pixels - and I want to take a screenshot of it to illustrate. How can I do this?

Last edited by lmello (2015-08-29 00:12:51)

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Re: kind of [SOLVED] GNOME 3: How do I take a screenshot of a lockscreen?

Have you a screen shot program that has a delay?  If so, set the delay and lock the screen.  It might work

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lmello

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Re: kind of [SOLVED] GNOME 3: How do I take a screenshot of a lockscreen?

Have you a screen shot program that has a delay?  If so, set the delay and lock the screen.  It might work

Yes, I do, but that'll be kinda tricky because the screen goes pitch black after a while. I'll try.

edit: it worked, thanks. Had to keep the mouse cursor moving. BUT If anyone has a more elegant solution ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Last edited by lmello (2015-08-29 00:22:32)

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mwillems

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Re: kind of [SOLVED] GNOME 3: How do I take a screenshot of a lockscreen?

Your font clipping issue has been posted about a few times recently.  It's a regression in the freetype packages, which has been fixed upstream.  We're just waiting for the fixes to trickle down.  In the meantime you can revert to an earlier version of those packages to fix it.

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Re: kind of [SOLVED] GNOME 3: How do I take a screenshot of a lockscreen?

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php … 9#p1544349

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lmello

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Re: kind of [SOLVED] GNOME 3: How do I take a screenshot of a lockscreen?

Your font clipping issue has been posted about a few times recently.  It's a regression in the freetype packages, which has been fixed upstream.  We're just waiting for the fixes to trickle down.  In the meantime you can revert to an earlier version of those packages to fix it.

Thank you, I just managed to file this task https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/46136 - a dupe of FS#45584

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