Taking screenshop

Jim Hall · Post by **Jim Hall** » Tue Apr 27, 2010 1:05 pm

Debian Lenny, very good Nvidia card, latest Wine.

Situation
I play WOW. I have had the need to occasionally take a screenshot. Using the
'PrtScn' key locks the game up for a couple of minutes, makes the cursor
disappear, and shows my top and bottom desktop bars. Keyboard still works so
I can press 'enter' to save the shot (to the Linux desktop). Eventually
things go back to normal. The shot usually is missing some elements that I
saw on the screen. Making it pretty much useless.

Question
Is this the proper way to take screenshots in Wine?

If so, am I missing something?

Thanks,
Jim
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DaVince · Post by **DaVince** » Wed Apr 28, 2010 6:26 am

Sure, it's worked for me in the past. Try disabling desktop compositing, perhaps making a screenshot will work better without it.

Jim Hall · Post by **Jim Hall** » Wed Apr 28, 2010 9:28 am

On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 6:26 AM, DaVince <[email protected]> wrote:

Sure, it's worked for me in the past. Try disabling desktop compositing,
perhaps making a screenshot will work better without it.

Uh, ok. I looked up "desktop compositing". Seems to have something to do
with that new-fangled, gee-wizzy, 3D desktop stuff, right? Well, I never
installed it when I installed Lenny. I checked Synaptic and, sure enough, no
Compiz. I checked the video card settings (Nvidia 9600 GT). Not mentioned. I
ran 'winecfg'. Nothing.

I must be missing something because I see lots of screenshots taken in Wine.

Jim
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DaVince · Post by **DaVince** » Wed Apr 28, 2010 6:30 pm

Alright, Compiz tends to be the main problem with stuff like this. If that's not the problem, I don't know what is...

Running your app from terminal, screenshotting, and then checking out what changed about the terminal output might help. Maybe it's doing something weird when capturing the screen output?