ECEn 320You will be required to take screen shots for several lab assignments. This page describes how you can take a screen shot of a region on the digital lab computers.
The Ubuntu image in the digital lab has a screen capture tool that you can use to capture regions of the screen. To access this tool, press the “Print Screen” button on your keyboard. Note that some keyboards have a printer on one of the keys but this does not seem to work. On these keyboards, press Fn->F9 to access the Print Screen button.
The print screen window will come up and give you several optoins.
- Selection: This allows you to select a region of the screen to print
- Screen: This allows you to capture the entire screen
- Window: This allows you to capture the contents of a single window
Once you have decided what to print, press the white “record” button to capture the image. The screen capture tool will save your image in the ~/Pictures/Screenshots directory of your file space. The capture tool will save images in the .png file format.
You can use the ‘eye of gnome’ (eog) executable to view the images you created.
You can also activate the screen capture tool by executing the following command from the command-line:
gnome-screenshot -i
Screen Capture Submission Standards
You will be taking a number of screen captures throughout the semester and submit this images in your repository. To facilitate grading of these images it is important that you follow a number of guidelines to get full credit for your image. Make sure all of your screenshot submissions adhere to each of the following guidelines:
- Do NOT take a picture of the screen with your phone and submit a phone photo. All such submissions will be rejected.
- Only take a screenshot of the window of interest. Screenshots that include other windows will be penalized.
- Make sure the content in the window is easy to read. Screenshots of large windows that are zoomed out and difficult to read will be penalized.