ScreenShot+Desktop Record 1.4
UUID: ScreenShot+RecordDesktop@tech71
Score: 32
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For some reason the save dialog doesnt show after taking a screen shot instead it auto saves to your pictures folder.
Lets you take screen shots of whole screen, selected window, or selected area.
Lets you record your desktop with or without audio.
ffmpeg is Required! open software manager and type in ffmpeg and install it.
Screenshots is with gnome-screenshot
Watch It In Action Here http://youtu.be/P-LIbuIPnP8
V1.2 changes: Coding
Download From here and
1) Extract to ~/.local/share/cinnamon/applets/
2) Enable the applet in cinnamon settings.
Note: If anyone gets any errors please let me know on the comments below
you keep coming up with great stuff :) if ur looking for things to do a screensaver inhibit applet would be awesome, like this one for gnome-shell https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/233/inhibit-applet/
cool ill try
Added to the Cinnamon Extras PPA (sudo apt-get install cinnamon-applet-screenshotplusrecording), nice job!
And then again not. The PPA installs into /usr/share/cinnamon/applets/ which means that the applet.js has to be edited to call the two sctipts there and not in .local directory - I couldn't quite figure that out myself but realize this line is what needs editing: Main.Util.spawnCommandLine(GLib.get_home_dir() + "/.local/share/cinnamon/applets/ScreenShot+RecordDesktop@tech71/screencapturesound.sh") - how would that line look if the scripts were placed in /usr/share/cinnamon/applets/ScreenShot+RecordDesktop@tech71/ ?
/usr/share/cinnamon/applets/ScreenShot+RecordDesktop@tech71/screencapturesound.sh is what it would have to be changed to
its just calling on my sh scripts i wrote
also those scripts rely on ffmpeg so ffmpeg would have to be installed on a users machine as well
When I tried simply changing /.local/share/... to /usr/share/... up popped an error message that the script could not be located in something like /Home/usr/share... - I think the line "(GLib.get_home_dir()" calls the home dir and I don't know how to edit it so it calls the root dir. The ppa package has ffmpeg as a dependency so that's installed automatically along with the applet, that's one of the benefits of installing from PPA.
http://ge.tt/7lkBh5G/v/0
you should create a brightness applet. havent seen it here.
Hi infektedpc, I can record with no audio, the file is stored in Video folder, but when I record with audio, there is no movie file created. I think my microphone is configured correctly because I can record audio with Audacity. Can you help me with this? Thanks!
Hi Infektedpc, nice applet you made here! Works well, but : * First, it records videos in "~/Videos", but in french-speaking countries, this dir is named "~/Vidéos". So it's a bit boring, but not too serious. I changed it myself in the files, located in /usr/share/cinnamon/applets/... I also tried to translate it into french. Easy, except that it seems there's an encoding problem : "é" appears like é and so on. Do you know how to handle this? * Second, when I use "Screenshot" in the menu, it opens gnome-screenshot and it works well. But when I try to use your shortcuts they won't take the screenshot. I used your nice video recording function to show what I mean : http://videobin.org/+5t8/6cq.html Anyway, great applet! I would just enjoy if the shortcuts would work, and if it was more customizable (what do you want to be shown in the menu, language, directory in which to record/save screenshots).
Snipe2004 have you looked in ~/Pictures folder it should be automatically saving the pictures there without any prompts
Great applet, Thank you! It made me interested in apps developing. I'm studying and 've made some modifications to your scripts, for example, changing the saving directory to '$HOME/Videos/Screen' just to keep the screen videos separated from other ones, and I'm thinking right now on how to get the 'Videos' path from linux (system variables?) because of the language configured on O.S. (in different configurations the default 'Videos' path may differ). Just little issues. Thank you very much for this app and keep going on! Regards.
First of all, I like your app a lot!!!! It is amazing! That is the reason why I would like to take it to Mate or gnome2. Could you tell me a way of doing it? Thanks for your time and help!
don't works after upgrade to fc17 :( stock screenshot app does. can you fix it?
Moskera i don't know how to fork it to mate but ill give it a try...
I'll Look Into The Fc17 issue
thank you, infektedpc. This applet really useful, i'll wait resolve this issue.
thanks for a great applet! i can't get record video with sound. what could be wrong?
Great applet, thanks! Just the random question: where I can find this tree wallpaper?
Looking good. However I'm having issues using it. It could be because I extracted the package I downloaded on this page to /usr/share/cinnamon/applets and not ~/.local/whateverthepathis/applets This is because I could not find the .local folder! I unhid the folders, there were other folders with the . in front that became unhidden so I know it's not that. The directory simply doesn't exist. Also, I cannot install that ppa, I am not sure why. I get this error: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/add-apt-repository", line 65, in
if not sp.add_source_from_line(line):
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/softwareproperties/SoftwareProperties.py", line 630, in add_source_from_line
(deb_line, file) = expand_ppa_line(line.strip(), self.distro.codename)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/softwareproperties/ppa.py", line 47, in expand_ppa_line
sourceslistd = apt_pkg.Config.find_dir("Dir::Etc::sourceparts")
AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'Config'
Please help? I need to be able to record my desktop with audio.
About my above post, I found the ~/.local folder, Nautilus was just playing dumb with me. However there isn't a cinnamon directory anymore, it's possible in the latest version of cinnamon it was removed, since they all seem to be in /usr/share/whatever. I tried creating a directory but it won't show up in the settings program. Help?
Ugh, triple post! I'm so sorry! I did some research and because I'm using LMDE I can't use repositories configured for Ubuntu+friends. So, could you confirm the issue with not having a cinnamon directory in ~/.local ? Perhaps make the downloadable file on this page play nice in the /usr/share/whatever directory? Much appreciated.
in gnome 4.2 utility gnme-screenshot works buggy, it's not an issue of applet, like i think earlier https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-screenshot/+bug/929536 (now screenshots saves in Pictures folder)
DIELAN: heres one that will play nice with usr/share/cinnamon/applets/ just extract in that directory and you should be good. http://dl.dropbox.com/u/31974669/ScreenShot+RecordDesktop@tech71.tar.gz
Hi, Great app! But I cant get it to record an area of the screen or a single window. I select the area then select record desktop with sound and it just records the whole desktop which records fine but I just want an area. I'm using Fedora 17.
Menu item "Open Folder" throws error about "starting Nautilus" - Cinnamon use Nemo.
This is one of the applets I use most! I've noticed a small bug on it... the feature I use more is "Select Area" because it saves me from having to crop screenshots. This stops working very often, I would click it and nothing would happen, the cursor will not go into an + to select an area. If I restart Cinnamon it starts working again. Any idea why? Thanks!
Can it record video of only one window? (My entire desktop is multi-monitor and quite large). If so, that should be mentioned in the descriptions, otherwise it would be a great feature to have :)
Also getting this error on 14- Menu item "Open Folder" throws error about "starting Nautilus"
Brilliant applet, but the only problem I'm having is the same as mentioned by dandv above; Using multi monitors I can't seem to record just the one monitor, which would make the recording feature a lot more useful!
ill try to work on multi monitor support soon
screenshots I take with the "selected area" option are tinted green by (I'm presuming) the selecting box.
edit: sometimes.
edit: maybe not anymore since I downloaded and tried with the current version
W: Imposible obtener http://ppa.launchpad.net/bimsebasse/cinnamonextras/ubuntu/dists/quantal/main/source/Sources 404 Not Found W: Imposible obtener http://ppa.launchpad.net/bimsebasse/cinnamonextras/ubuntu/dists/quantal/main/binary-i386/Packages 404 Not Found
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:bimsebasse/cinnamonextras it shows............ Cannot access PPA (https://launchpad.net/api/1.0/~bimsebasse/+archive/cinnamonextras) to get PPA information, please check your internet connection. plz help ..............i'm using 10Mbps internet connection but it shows ...............this error when i'm installing ScreenShot+Desktop Record 1.3..........
Hello friend Awessome applet BTW I dont know why the video recording do not work Cinnammon tells "Recording" "Stop Recording" but the video file isn't created at all! Anyways very good applet if you can help me! Using on Ubuntu
Hi infektedpc, Respondint to Snipe2004's comment about the Videos directory being wrong in non-English languages.... you should be able to use xdg to get the correct "Videos" directory in any given locale or if the user has changed the default directory. To print the Videos directory path: xdg-user-dir VIDEOS To print the Pictures directory path: xdg-user-dir VIDEOS Nice extension by the way ;) Jon
love this. but how can i set the format to .mp4 , this one .kmv is not benefit for me to do some kind of stuff.
When I try to start recording, I get the following error: Faild to execute child process: "/home/gilnaa/.local/share/cinnamon/applets/ScreenShot..../screencaputre.sh" (Permission Denied)