# The &ksnapshot; Handbook

Richard
J.
Moore

    rich@kde.org

Robert
L.
McCormick

    c0029131@airmail.net

Lauri
Watts

    lauri@kde.org

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 application 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 left 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 Snapshot button.

When you want to safe the snapshot in a specific folder with a specific filename, use the Save Snapshot As ... button. This opens the standard &kde; save dialog, where you can choose the filename, folder and format your file is saved in.

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 Only grab the window containing the pointer and then take a New Snapshot.

Depending on your Snapshot delay: settings you get either a cross as the mouse pointer or you can work with a program until the delay is over and a snapshot is taken.

With No delay, the snapshot is taken immediately when you click in a window.

&ksnapshot; will display the new snapshot in the preview area, at which time you can choose to save the new image (by pressing Save Snapshot or Save Snapshot As ...) or to grab a new one, by pressing the New Snapshot button.

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 New Snapshot.

### Additional Features

#### Snapshot Delay

The Snapshot Delay: box allows you to enter an arbitrary time delay, in seconds, between the time that you press the New Snapshot 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.

#### Exclude Window decorations

Include window decorations is enabled by default.

When you only want to capture the application itself without the surrounding window decoration, disable this option and take a new snapshot.

#### Print Snapshot

When you want to print your snapshot from the preview, just click Print Snapshot and you get the standard KDE Print dialog, from where you can directly print your snapshot.

#### Buttons

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

Help

  Gives you a menu where you can open the &ksnapshot; Handbook, report a bug or get some more information about &kde; and &ksnapshot;.

Quit

  Quits 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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