[openbox] Taking a screenshot (with the menu intact)

[Chris Anderson]

On Wed, 2003-07-23 at 10:10, Tim Riley wrote:
> On Wed, 2003-07-23 at 23:38, Chris Anderson wrote:
> > I wanted to take a screenshot of Openbox3 running (with the menu open)
> > and my DirectFB X setup to make a friend drool but I can't seem to take
> > a screenshot without closing the menu. Is there a keybinding that will
> > take a picture with the menu in the shot?
> 
> If you have imagemagick installed, you can use the 'import' program,
> from a shell.  I do this:
> 
> sleep 6; import -window root foo.png
> 
> Then you have 6 seconds in which to do all the menu opening you like. 
> This same principle can be applied with any screen grabbing program.  I
> believe the gimp can import a screenshot of the entire desktop after a
> certain delay also.
> 
> Wishing you luck in your screen shooting forays,
> 
> Tim

ah, good idea. I've used import but didn't think of using sleep, thanks.

-Chris