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methuselah

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Registered: 2007-10-02

Posts: 570

How do I take a screenshot of the GDM?

Hello, I modified a GDM I found on Gnome-Looks.org and I want to take a screenshot of it.

Does anybody know how I can do this? Thanks.

chicha

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From: France

Registered: 2007-04-20

Posts: 271

Re: How do I take a screenshot of the GDM?

You can use either :

gdmthemetester or gdmXnest
both provided with the gdm package.

Cheers,
Chicha

smurnjiff

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Registered: 2007-06-25

Posts: 211

Re: How do I take a screenshot of the GDM?

Take a look at this thread:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=85945
and this one
http://osdir.com/ml/gnome.general/2002-06/msg00146.html
and this one
http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=122058

Basically you have two options.
- You can use gdmthemetester to create a Xnest for you

gdmthemetester <environment> <themename>
gdmthemetester console Circles

You can find themes in /usr/share/gdm/themes

- You can launch GDM, wait for it to load, switch to another VT (not 7), and then run this:

chvt 7 ; sleep 5 ; XAUTHORITY=/var/gdm/:0.Xauth DISPLAY=:0.0 import -window 
root /tmp/gdm-shot.png

This will switch to VT 7, wait 5 seconds, establish the environmental variables and take a screenshot using imagemagick.

Oh yeah, you can use a search engine to find more information.  Try "how to take a screenshot of gdm".

methuselah

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Registered: 2007-10-02

Posts: 570

Re: How do I take a screenshot of the GDM?

Take a look at this thread:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=85945
and this one
http://osdir.com/ml/gnome.general/2002-06/msg00146.html
and this one
http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=122058

Basically you have two options.
- You can use gdmthemetester to create a Xnest for you

gdmthemetester <environment> <themename>
gdmthemetester console Circles

You can find themes in /usr/share/gdm/themes

- You can launch GDM, wait for it to load, switch to another VT (not 7), and then run this:

chvt 7 ; sleep 5 ; XAUTHORITY=/var/gdm/:0.Xauth DISPLAY=:0.0 import -window 
root /tmp/gdm-shot.png

This will switch to VT 7, wait 5 seconds, establish the environmental variables and take a screenshot using imagemagick.

Oh yeah, you can use a search engine to find more information.  Try "how to take a screenshot of gdm".

Thanks, and I did search on Google and Ubunut Forums as well as here... I saw both ways you described, but wasn't sure about either of them because nobody really "explained" it, so I wasn't really sure of what it did.

Your explanation about using the tty really helped me, so thank you. I'm going to try it that way first.

And I always search for at least a day before I ask... plus, I had already found this page: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2127

... but it wasn't explained as good as you explained it.

Last edited by methuselah (2007-10-28 19:37:51)

methuselah

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Registered: 2007-10-02

Posts: 570

Re: How do I take a screenshot of the GDM?

This is what I was trying to take a picture of:

Large View: http://i144.photobucket.com/albums/r161 … enshot.png

Rumor

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From: Albany, NY

Registered: 2006-07-07

Posts: 638

Re: How do I take a screenshot of the GDM?

Oh, I like that!

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methuselah

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Registered: 2007-10-02

Posts: 570

Re: How do I take a screenshot of the GDM?

Oh, I like that!

Thank you, I have a whole autumn desktop theme right now.

Last edited by methuselah (2007-10-29 00:15:03)

smurnjiff

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Registered: 2007-06-25

Posts: 211

Re: How do I take a screenshot of the GDM?

I'm glad it worked out for you.

alexmatos

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From: Rio de Janeiro, Brasil

Registered: 2007-08-06

Posts: 124

Re: How do I take a screenshot of the GDM?

This is what I was trying to take a picture of:

Large View: http://i144.photobucket.com/albums/r161 … enshot.png
http://i144.photobucket.com/albums/r161 … shot-1.png

Very nice! Would you mind sharing it?

methuselah

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Registered: 2007-10-02

Posts: 570

Re: How do I take a screenshot of the GDM?

This is what I was trying to take a picture of:

Large View: http://i144.photobucket.com/albums/r161 … enshot.png
http://i144.photobucket.com/albums/r161 … shot-1.png

Very nice! Would you mind sharing it?

Hello, this is the GDM that I used: http://www.gnome-look.org/content/show. … 09dabcfbfa

and here is the Arch image that I pieced together with a few images I found in this forum, (the shadow doesn't show up in the dark border):

I also used the OpenLogos font from Gnome-Looks.org for the Gnome sign.

Last edited by methuselah (2007-11-01 05:09:48)