# The &ksnapshot; Handbook

Richard
J.
Moore

    rich@kde.org

Robert
L.
McCormick

    c0029131@airmail.net

Lauri
Watts

    vampyr@atconnex.net

Reviewer
Richard
J
Moore

    rich@kde.org

Developer
Matthias
Ettrich

    ettrich@kde.org

Developer
1997-2000
Richard J. Moore
2000
Matthias Ettrich
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2000-12-12
1.01.00

&ksnapshot; is a simple applet for taking screenshots. It is capable of capturing images of either the whole desktop or just a single window. The images can then be saved in a variety of formats.

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## Introduction

&ksnapshot; is a simple applet for taking screenshots. It is capable of capturing images of either the whole desktop or just a single window. The images can then be saved in a variety of formats.

Please report any problems or feature requests to the KDE mailing lists

## Using &ksnapshot;

This chapter describes the use of &ksnapshot; for capturing screen images.

### Starting &ksnapshot;

&ksnapshot; may be started by one of several ways as described below.

- You may start &ksnapshot; by selecting it from the Graphics submenu of the panel.

- You may start &ksnapshot; by entering the following at the command prompt:

      % ksnapshot &

- The mini command line (invoked with Alt F2) may also be used to start &ksnapshot;

Once &ksnapshot; starts, you will see a window like the following: &ksnapshot; Preview Window

### Taking A Snapshot

&ksnapshot; grabs an image of your entire desktop immediately after it is started, but before it displays itself on screen. This allows you to quickly create full-desktop screenshot images.

The snapshot taken by &ksnapshot; is displayed in the preview window, which is located in the upper center of the &ksnapshot; application window. Below is an example of the preview window from &ksnapshot;. Your preview will differ depending on what you have displayed on the desktop.

&ksnapshot; Preview Window

The snapshot displayed may be saved immediately by clicking on the Save button. The filename that the snapshot will be saved under appears in the Filename box. If multiple snapshots are taken, the filename is automatically incremented to prevent you from overwriting previous snapshots. You may however edit the filename to anything you wish, including the name of a previously saved snapshot.

To take a snapshot of a single window, enable the Only grab the window containing the pointer and then click with the left mouse button in the window you wish to capture. &ksnapshot; will display the new snapshot in the preview area, at which time you can choose to save the new image (by pressing the Save) or to grab a new one, by pressing the Grab button. This is &ksnapshot;'s default behavior.

To take a new snapshot of the entire desktop, uncheck the Only grab the window containing the pointer option. &ksnapshot; will now capture the entire desktop if you press Grab.

### Additional Features

#### Delay

The Delay box allows you to enter an arbitrary time delay, in seconds, between the time that you press the Grab button and the time that the snapshot is taken.

When a delay time has been set, you do not have to click the mouse button to capture a screenshot. This enables you to open a drop down menu, and take a picture of it.

#### Buttons

There are two further buttons located at the bottom of the &ksnapshot; window. There function is described below.

Help

  Activates the online manual for &ksnapshot;.

Close

  Closes the &ksnapshot; application.

## Credits and License

Program copyright

- 1997-2000 Richard J. Moore rich@kde.org

- 2000 Matthias Ettrich ettrich@kde.org

Documentation based on the original, copyright 1997-2000 Richard J. Moore rich@kde.org

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## Installation

### How to obtain &ksnapshot;

&ksnapshot; is part of the KDE project http://www.kde.org.

&ksnapshot; can be found in the kdegraphics package on ftp://ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/, the main ftp site of the KDE project.

### Requirements

A successful installation of KDE 2.0 is required to use &ksnapshot;.

All required libraries as well as &ksnapshot; itself can be found on The KDE FTP site or one of it's mirrors.

### Compilation and Installation

&ksnapshot; may be installed from the kdegraphics package either by installing a binary RPM or by compiling the source package.

#### Installing from RPMs

To install the kdegrahics package from a binary RPM you must be logged in as root. Assuming that the name of the RPM is `filename.rpm`, do the following at the command prompt:

    % rpm -ivh filename.rpm

Should you run into problems please report them to the KDE mailing lists.

#### Installing from source

In order to compile and install &ksnapshot; on your system, type the following in the base directory of the kdegraphics distribution:

    % ./configure
    % make
    % make install

Since &ksnapshot; uses autoconf and automake you should not have trouble compiling it.

Should you run into problems please report them to the KDE mailing lists.

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