Posts Tagged ‘screenshot’
How to remove statusbar and menubar from VirtualBox windows (Linux)
VirtualBox machines usually have two bars in their window to make working with them easier.
These however are a great disturbance if you want to take screenshots of your machines – even if you select to leave the window border, the menu bars will still be on them.
To remove the bars, it only needs a simple terminal command. Open one and enter following (make sure that no virtual machines are running):
/usr/bin/VBoxManage setextradata global GUI/Customizations noMenuBar,noStatusBar
Next time you start a VirtualBox vm, there won’t be any menu bars. To restore them again, enter following into a terminal:
/usr/bin/VBoxManage setextradata global GUI/Customizations MenuBar,StatusBar
How to exclude mouse pointer by default for screenshots made with gnome-screenshot on Linux
Gnome-Screenshot is the default tool to take screenshots on Ubuntu and Mint and brings a great deal of functionality. While it also has the ability to exclude the mouse pointer for screenshots if you use the graphical interface, you won’t find this feature if you want to take them from the command line – the only option to exclude them there is to set the option as default which is possible with dconf-editor.
If dconf-editor isn’t installed on your system yet, install it by entering the following into a terminal:
sudo apt-get install dconf-tools
Afterwards you can change the default behaviour of pointer inclusion with
dconf write /org/gnome/gnome-screenshot/include-pointer false
If you want to revert things, just set it to true again:
dconf write /org/gnome/gnome-screenshot/include-pointer true
Next time you open the GUI or take a screenshot via PrtScr or the terminal, the mouse pointer won’t be included on the screenshot.
Take Screenshots in Windows 8 Consumer Preview
Other than in other versions of Windows where you took screenshots by pressing the PrtSc key and then pasting them to Paint or another graphical editor, it is now possible to take screenshots directly on in Windows 8 Consumer Preview.
To do that, just press Windows key + PrtSc and the screenshot will be saved into your pictures folder. For those who prefer the classic method, it is still available the way it was. Furthermore, if you did not know, you can press Alt + PrtSc to capture only the active window. Unfortunately this feature was not (yet) updated to work together with the Windows key method.