Take screenshots in background silently for archive purposes

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During my work, I often try out tools of different complexity and develop usage and integration scenarios.

I use Ubuntu 18.04 LTS.

Sometimes if things get really complicated, I am not always sure how exactly I got to the solution, and for documentation and knowledge sharing purposes I spend additional time to become more aware of a neat and clean way with less messing around, take screenshots and so on.

Then I thought it would be great to have a screen capturing tool to take a picture say every 30 seconds silently in background so that I can:

easily recap my steps and also gotchas

if I am lucky, directly use screenshots from this image archive for the documentation.

I thought I would for example configure a cronjob for shutter, but while I am already using it, there is an error "you have already shutter instance running". I will try now with scrot.

Any better ideas?

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During my work, I often try out tools of different complexity and develop usage and integration scenarios.

I use Ubuntu 18.04 LTS.

Then I thought it would be great to have a screen capturing tool to take a picture say every 30 seconds silently in background so that I can:

easily recap my steps and also gotchas

if I am lucky, directly use screenshots from this image archive for the documentation.

I thought I would for example configure a cronjob for shutter, but while I am already using it, there is an error "you have already shutter instance running". I will try now with scrot.

Any better ideas?

edited 48 mins ago

asked 1 hour ago

J. Doe

1185

What is your Ubuntu version?
â€“Â PRATAP
1 hour ago

@PRATAP 18.04 LTS
â€“Â J. Doe
48 mins ago

add a commentÂ |Â

up vote
2
down vote

favorite

During my work, I often try out tools of different complexity and develop usage and integration scenarios.

I use Ubuntu 18.04 LTS.

Then I thought it would be great to have a screen capturing tool to take a picture say every 30 seconds silently in background so that I can:

easily recap my steps and also gotchas

if I am lucky, directly use screenshots from this image archive for the documentation.

I thought I would for example configure a cronjob for shutter, but while I am already using it, there is an error "you have already shutter instance running". I will try now with scrot.

Any better ideas?

edited 48 mins ago

asked 1 hour ago

J. Doe

1185

During my work, I often try out tools of different complexity and develop usage and integration scenarios.

I use Ubuntu 18.04 LTS.

Then I thought it would be great to have a screen capturing tool to take a picture say every 30 seconds silently in background so that I can:

easily recap my steps and also gotchas

if I am lucky, directly use screenshots from this image archive for the documentation.

I thought I would for example configure a cronjob for shutter, but while I am already using it, there is an error "you have already shutter instance running". I will try now with scrot.

Any better ideas?

shutter snapshot capture scrot-command

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J. Doe

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edited 48 mins ago

asked 1 hour ago

J. Doe

1185

edited 48 mins ago

asked 1 hour ago

J. Doe

1185

asked 1 hour ago

J. Doe

1185

asked 1 hour ago

J. Doe

1185

What is your Ubuntu version?
â€“Â PRATAP
1 hour ago

@PRATAP 18.04 LTS
â€“Â J. Doe
48 mins ago

add a commentÂ |Â

What is your Ubuntu version?
â€“Â PRATAP
1 hour ago

@PRATAP 18.04 LTS
â€“Â J. Doe
48 mins ago

What is your Ubuntu version?
â€“Â PRATAP
1 hour ago

@PRATAP 18.04 LTS
â€“Â J. Doe
48 mins ago

add a commentÂ |Â

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I have just started learning Ubuntu.

I don't know this method is proper or not.

I Could achieve it in the below way.

I have created a script like this named ScreenShot.sh in the folder /usr/local/bin

#!/bin/bash

# NAME: ScreenShot.sh
# PATH: /usr/local/bin
# DESC: Take Screenshots at every specified intervals with "watch -n 10 ScreenShot.sh" Command
# DATE: Oct 12th 2018

sudo gnome-screenshot -d 0

sudo chmod a+x /usr/local/bin/ScreenShot.sh

when i start the system and wanted to start the screen capture at every 10secs,

i run this command

sudo watch -n 10 ScreenShot.sh

i have configured my default folder, image type to be saved, with dconf editor in gnome-screenshot section.

enter image description here

Sounds are stopped by dconf settings under sound section

enter image description here

edited 5 mins ago

answered 28 mins ago

PRATAP

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neat one! will try out - thank you!
â€“Â J. Doe
19 mins ago

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maybe scrot or shoot can be used.

answered 31 mins ago

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I came up with

#! /usr/bin/env bash

sleep_period=30s

while true; do

scrot $HOME/Pictures/"$(date +%Y%m%d%H%M%S)".png

sleep $sleep_period
done

I have ~/bin and so I saved this script there as continuous-scrot.sh and made it executable. To run it, I open a terminal window and type the name of the script and press Enter. I leave this terminal window active and full-screen screenshots are captured every 30s in your ~/Pictures folder. To stop, just go back to this terminal window and press Ctrl+C.

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I have just started learning Ubuntu.

I don't know this method is proper or not.

I Could achieve it in the below way.

I have created a script like this named ScreenShot.sh in the folder /usr/local/bin

#!/bin/bash

# NAME: ScreenShot.sh
# PATH: /usr/local/bin
# DESC: Take Screenshots at every specified intervals with "watch -n 10 ScreenShot.sh" Command
# DATE: Oct 12th 2018

sudo gnome-screenshot -d 0

sudo chmod a+x /usr/local/bin/ScreenShot.sh

when i start the system and wanted to start the screen capture at every 10secs,

i run this command

sudo watch -n 10 ScreenShot.sh

i have configured my default folder, image type to be saved, with dconf editor in gnome-screenshot section.

enter image description here

Sounds are stopped by dconf settings under sound section

enter image description here

edited 5 mins ago

answered 28 mins ago

PRATAP

7141418

neat one! will try out - thank you!
â€“Â J. Doe
19 mins ago

add a commentÂ |Â

up vote
2
down vote

I have just started learning Ubuntu.

I don't know this method is proper or not.

I Could achieve it in the below way.

I have created a script like this named ScreenShot.sh in the folder /usr/local/bin

#!/bin/bash

# NAME: ScreenShot.sh
# PATH: /usr/local/bin
# DESC: Take Screenshots at every specified intervals with "watch -n 10 ScreenShot.sh" Command
# DATE: Oct 12th 2018

sudo gnome-screenshot -d 0

sudo chmod a+x /usr/local/bin/ScreenShot.sh

when i start the system and wanted to start the screen capture at every 10secs,

i run this command

sudo watch -n 10 ScreenShot.sh

i have configured my default folder, image type to be saved, with dconf editor in gnome-screenshot section.

enter image description here

Sounds are stopped by dconf settings under sound section

enter image description here

edited 5 mins ago

answered 28 mins ago

PRATAP

7141418

neat one! will try out - thank you!
â€“Â J. Doe
19 mins ago

add a commentÂ |Â

up vote
2
down vote

I have just started learning Ubuntu.

I don't know this method is proper or not.

I Could achieve it in the below way.

I have created a script like this named ScreenShot.sh in the folder /usr/local/bin

#!/bin/bash

# NAME: ScreenShot.sh
# PATH: /usr/local/bin
# DESC: Take Screenshots at every specified intervals with "watch -n 10 ScreenShot.sh" Command
# DATE: Oct 12th 2018

sudo gnome-screenshot -d 0

sudo chmod a+x /usr/local/bin/ScreenShot.sh

when i start the system and wanted to start the screen capture at every 10secs,

i run this command

sudo watch -n 10 ScreenShot.sh

i have configured my default folder, image type to be saved, with dconf editor in gnome-screenshot section.

enter image description here

Sounds are stopped by dconf settings under sound section

enter image description here

edited 5 mins ago

answered 28 mins ago

PRATAP

7141418

I have just started learning Ubuntu.

I don't know this method is proper or not.

I Could achieve it in the below way.

I have created a script like this named ScreenShot.sh in the folder /usr/local/bin

#!/bin/bash

# NAME: ScreenShot.sh
# PATH: /usr/local/bin
# DESC: Take Screenshots at every specified intervals with "watch -n 10 ScreenShot.sh" Command
# DATE: Oct 12th 2018

sudo gnome-screenshot -d 0

sudo chmod a+x /usr/local/bin/ScreenShot.sh

when i start the system and wanted to start the screen capture at every 10secs,

i run this command

sudo watch -n 10 ScreenShot.sh

i have configured my default folder, image type to be saved, with dconf editor in gnome-screenshot section.

enter image description here

Sounds are stopped by dconf settings under sound section

enter image description here

edited 5 mins ago

answered 28 mins ago

PRATAP

7141418

edited 5 mins ago

answered 28 mins ago

PRATAP

7141418

answered 28 mins ago

PRATAP

7141418

answered 28 mins ago

PRATAP

7141418

neat one! will try out - thank you!
â€“Â J. Doe
19 mins ago

add a commentÂ |Â

neat one! will try out - thank you!
â€“Â J. Doe
19 mins ago

neat one! will try out - thank you!
â€“Â J. Doe
19 mins ago

add a commentÂ |Â

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0
down vote

maybe scrot or shoot can be used.

answered 31 mins ago

Mr.Michael.Schulze

112

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up vote
0
down vote

maybe scrot or shoot can be used.

answered 31 mins ago

Mr.Michael.Schulze

112

add a commentÂ |Â

up vote
0
down vote

maybe scrot or shoot can be used.

answered 31 mins ago

Mr.Michael.Schulze

112

maybe scrot or shoot can be used.

answered 31 mins ago

Mr.Michael.Schulze

112

answered 31 mins ago

Mr.Michael.Schulze

112

answered 31 mins ago

Mr.Michael.Schulze

112

answered 31 mins ago

Mr.Michael.Schulze

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I came up with

#! /usr/bin/env bash

sleep_period=30s

while true; do

scrot $HOME/Pictures/"$(date +%Y%m%d%H%M%S)".png

sleep $sleep_period
done

answered 11 mins ago

DK Bose

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up vote
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down vote

I came up with

#! /usr/bin/env bash

sleep_period=30s

while true; do

scrot $HOME/Pictures/"$(date +%Y%m%d%H%M%S)".png

sleep $sleep_period
done

answered 11 mins ago

DK Bose

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up vote
0
down vote

I came up with

#! /usr/bin/env bash

sleep_period=30s

while true; do

scrot $HOME/Pictures/"$(date +%Y%m%d%H%M%S)".png

sleep $sleep_period
done

answered 11 mins ago

DK Bose

10.3k103375

I came up with

#! /usr/bin/env bash

sleep_period=30s

while true; do

scrot $HOME/Pictures/"$(date +%Y%m%d%H%M%S)".png

sleep $sleep_period
done

answered 11 mins ago

DK Bose

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answered 11 mins ago

DK Bose

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answered 11 mins ago

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