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    From BARRY MARTIN@454:3/105 to KY MOFFET on Saturday, November 05, 2016 08:23:00
    Hi Ky!

    Probably terribly obvious to most but 'discovered' a little trick for
    when wanting to get a screen shot while in Virtual Windows on a Linux
    machine.

    The entire screen capture is using PrtScrn -- that works in Virtual XP.
    The 'select an area' screenshot is Shift_PrtScrn -- didn't work. Dawned
    on my to try bringing one of the Linux windows up -- viewable/overlaying
    a portion of the Virtual XP screen. Put the mouse over the Linux
    window, Shift_PrtScrn to activate that function, now it works!

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  • From KY MOFFET@454:3/105 to BARRY MARTIN on Saturday, November 12, 2016 08:44:00
    BARRY MARTIN wrote:
    Hi Ky!

    Probably terribly obvious to most but 'discovered' a little trick for
    when wanting to get a screen shot while in Virtual Windows on a Linux machine.

    The entire screen capture is using PrtScrn -- that works in Virtual XP.
    The 'select an area' screenshot is Shift_PrtScrn -- didn't work. Dawned
    on my to try bringing one of the Linux windows up -- viewable/overlaying
    a portion of the Virtual XP screen. Put the mouse over the Linux
    window, Shift_PrtScrn to activate that function, now it works!

    Oh, so for some reason it's only respecting the active window for
    screencaps.
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  • From BARRY MARTIN@454:3/105 to KY MOFFET on Sunday, November 13, 2016 08:12:00
    Hi Ky!

    Probably terribly obvious to most but 'discovered' a little trick for
    when wanting to get a screen shot while in Virtual Windows on a Linux machine.

    The entire screen capture is using PrtScrn -- that works in Virtual XP.
    The 'select an area' screenshot is Shift_PrtScrn -- didn't work. Dawned
    on my to try bringing one of the Linux windows up -- viewable/overlaying
    a portion of the Virtual XP screen. Put the mouse over the Linux
    window, Shift_PrtScrn to activate that function, now it works!

    Oh, so for some reason it's only respecting the active window for screencaps.

    Yes and no, Will do a full screen capture (hit PrintScrn) and that will
    work; do a defined one (Shift_PrintScrn) and won't work. I'm guessing something to do with what's active, and/or Windows doesn't understand
    the Shift option. ...As long as it works!


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  • From KY MOFFET@454:3/105 to BARRY MARTIN on Tuesday, November 22, 2016 23:17:00
    BARRY MARTIN wrote:
    Hi Ky!

    Yes and no, Will do a full screen capture (hit PrintScrn) and that will work; do a defined one (Shift_PrintScrn) and won't work. I'm guessing something to do with what's active, and/or Windows doesn't understand
    the Shift option. ...As long as it works!

    Um, in Windows it's Alt-PrtScr to capture just the active window...
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  • From BARRY MARTIN@454:3/105 to KY MOFFET on Wednesday, November 23, 2016 08:14:00
    Hi Ky!

    Yes and no, Will do a full screen capture (hit PrintScrn) and that will work; do a defined one (Shift_PrintScrn) and won't work. I'm guessing something to do with what's active, and/or Windows doesn't understand
    the Shift option. ...As long as it works!
    Um, in Windows it's Alt-PrtScr to capture just the active
    window...

    With the Virtual Windows XP running under Linux Alt_PrintScreen brings
    up the command line.

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