Need to take Screenshots at regular intervals

[TheNinja]

Hi
I use KSnapshot to take my screenshots. Its pretty cool, except that I cannot take screenshots continuously. I need to click on New Snapshot everytime and then save it and then take a New snapshot.

Can i configure it to take snapshots every \"X\" seconds and save it automatically with a base filename that I specify?

I am trying to take snapshots of the KDE Menu.

Thanks in advance,
Cheers,
TheNinja

[frank_goossens_424]

alternative; use \'import\' (part of imagemagick) to make screenshots. as it\'s command-line based you can script/ cron it ..

[bgmilne]

You can script most KDE apps via dcop, for example, this will cause ksnapshot to grab a new screenshot:



$ dcop ksnapshot-`pgrep -u $USER ksnapshot` interface slotGrab



To see apps exposed by dcop, run:



$ dcop



You will note some have a -$PID appended (probably those where you can have more than one instance), which is why you need the \'pgrep -u $USER $app\'.



Then, just keep adding the things returned by dcop to see what you can do.



For example, you could so something like this (in a shell-script file)





#!/bin/bash



#set time between grabs

dcop ksnapshot-`pgrep -u $USER ksnapshot` interface setTime 1



# loop from 0 to 9

for ((i=0;i<10;i=i))

#grab a shot:

do dcop ksnapshot-`pgrep -u $USER ksnapshot` interface slotGrab

#save it to a numbered file:

dcop ksnapshot-`pgrep -u $USER ksnapshot` interface save \\

ksnapshot-dcop-$i.png

#end of loop

done



Stick that together with something like kdialog, and you can make it do whatever you want ....

[TheNinja]

Thanks for the replies people...I will try it out and let you know.



Cheers,

TheNinja