Request: A way to extract/copy text descriptions

[Lazy_Perfectionist]

How does Ksnapshot work? Is it satisfactory, am I taking this thread in the wrong direction talking about screenshots? If it isn't what doesnt it do that you are looking for?

Well... I don't have much to offer on the subject right now, but I'll chime in if I think of something later.

[Alneyan]

If you like strings, you may want to look into grep. That command finds all occurrences of a regular expression in a file, which makes finding a particular description quite a bit easier. For a simple example, grep "Starspawns are ancient" <file> gives the one matching description.

If you are into screenshots, I'd suggest using the scrot program. Besides having the worst name ever, this program takes screenshots through a command line interface, so you can easily write a 'take screenshot after 10 seconds and upload it to FTP and send URL somewhere' one-shot script.

Neither solution is *quite* what you ask for, of course, but that should still be more convenient than typing descriptions by hand.

[Gandalf Parker]

Alneyan said:
If you are into screenshots, I'd suggest using the scrot program. Besides having the worst name ever, this program takes screenshots through a command line interface, so you can easily write a 'take screenshot after 10 seconds and upload it to FTP and send URL somewhere' one-shot script.

Sweet! Sounds like my kindof toy. If I used Xwindows to play Dom I would definetly want to remember that one.

[lch]

Lazy_Perfectionist said:
How does Ksnapshot work?

Press "Print Screen", receev screenshot. Yeah, I use it when I do screenshots, it does the job. That or the Screenshot tool (via Import or something) from GIMP.