How can I minimize/take screenshot of a full screen game?

Davigetto · 2007-07-18 00:12:36

Hi, I when I play full screen games, like nexuiz, torcs o xmame games, I can't minimize them with the typical ALT+ESC, and also, if I press Impr Paint when playing, it doesn't works (on the desktop, gnome-screenshot works).

Is there anyway to do that?

Greetings

CaspianXI · 2007-07-22 20:47:15

Hi, Davigetto.

Normally when I'm using a full-screen app, I switch desktops, launch gimp and tell it to capture the entire screen in 5 seconds (or however much time you need to switch back) and switch to the original desktop you were using before.

I've never done this with a game (I don't play games ), but I imagine that it would work.

harlekin · 2007-07-22 22:19:20

You can bin a key to do so if your WM supports binding keys.

In dwm it's fairly easy. <:

Davigetto · 2007-07-23 07:00:38

On a full screen game I can't switch desktops, to take an screenshot, I must stop the game, so... xDDDDD

harlekin, what you refer when telling "WM"??

harlekin · 2007-07-23 07:24:49

A window manager as dwm, wmii, ion, gnome, xfce, kde. Where as kde, gnome, and xfce (?) are desktop environments as well. I don't know it there's a special service that is their WM.

edit: I just saw, that you're using gnome applications. Assuming, your using gnome: Isn't there any possibility to bind keys?

edit2: If my assumption is right, maybe this link will help: http://gnome-hacks.org/hacks.html?id=14. I don't know what metacity is, but it seems at least to be gnome related. Google will find useful links for other WMs as well, I bet.

Last edited by harlekin (2007-07-23 07:27:12)

George_K · 2007-07-23 08:43:58

How to take screenshots.
1. Launch an application on a separate X server. The easiest way is to use xlaunch (http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-483004.html).
2. Switch from that application to any desktop (Ctrl+Alt+...) and run in console something like

sleep 5; DISPLAY=:1 import -window root screen.png

or

while true; do
sleep 5; DISPLAY=:1 import -window root screen-`date +%T`.png
done

where :1 is an identifier of a new display (you can know it by running "ps aux | grep Xorg").
3. Switch to a new display during 5 seconds.

Last edited by George_K (2007-07-23 08:44:52)

Kern · 2007-08-16 10:24:49

Not sure if the reason you want to minimize is to take a screenie, but in nexuiz , ingame screeendump is F12 - not sure about other games. saves to a dir, and you can then work with it later. Check the dropdown/config menus on other games.

Kern

Arch Linux

#1 2007-07-18 00:12:36

How can I minimize/take screenshot of a full screen game?

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