How do I take a screenshot?

[Lorcanwolf]

Can somebody tell me how, please?

[sir_michael]

Press the princt scrren button, look way above you arrow keys, on the top of your keyboard, should be beside scroll lock, anyways, press that, and then paste that picture in some image program ( Example: Go to Paint. Go to Edit>Paste and it should pop up.)

Hope that helps!

[VeraX]

The Print Screen key you have to press doesn't say Print Screen. It says
Prt Sc
SysRq

Once you press that, just paste it onto a graphics program

[unclekyky]

a little off topic but what does the SysRq even do?

[Hunter Lupe]

a little off topic but what does the SysRq even do?

It's rather disused. The Linux kernel uses it as a priority command -- you can invoke several commands by pressing the SysRq key in combination with others.

Try a google search?

The Print Screen key you have to press doesn't say Print Screen. It says
Prt Sc
SysRq

That depends on the keyboard. I've seen some where it's labeled as Print Screen. Mine reads PrtScn SysRq Insert.

[dargonz]

OMG, I couldn't do it my whole lifetime at ppt because I was pressing the windows button Lol

[jellyoflight]

a little off topic but what does the SysRq even do?

It's rather disused. The Linux kernel uses it as a priority command -- you can invoke several commands by pressing the SysRq key in combination with others.

Try a google search?

The Print Screen key you have to press doesn't say Print Screen. It says
Prt Sc
SysRq

That depends on the keyboard. I've seen some where it's labeled as Print Screen. Mine reads PrtScn SysRq Insert.

*nods* Maybe it depends on which country or something?


Mine says:


Print
Screen
__________
SysRq

[linux]

a little off topic but what does the SysRq even do?

Surprised to see you didn't know this considering that you said you're running Gentoo in another thread and gave me flack for dual-booting WinME

Code:

The Magic SysRq Key

This feature allows you to do some basic maintenance tasks even if the rest of the system isn't responding. In particular, it allows you to shutdown your system properly, thus avoiding the risk of file system corruption when simply turning the machine off with media still being mounted.

The 'SysRq' sequence involves pressing three keys at once, theleft ALT key, the 'SysRq' key (also labeled 'PrtSc' or 'F13') and a letter key:

1. <ALT> <SysRq> <r> puts the keyboard in 'raw' mode.
This might be helpful in cases where the graphical interface does not respond to keyboard or mouse commands any more. Having pressed that sequence, press <ALT> <CTRL> <BACKSPACE> simultaneously. This will try to kill the X server and drops you onto the console (i.e. it's the emergency key combination to switch from runlevel 5 to runlevel 3).

2. <ALT> <SysRq> <s> attempts to write all unsaved data to disk ('sync' the disk) to prevent file corruption.

3. <ALT> <SysRq> <e> sends a termination signal to all processes, except for 'init'.

4. <ALT> <SysRq> <i> sends a kill signal to all processes, except for init, thus terminating all processes which ignored the termination signal.

5. <ALT> <SysRq> <u> remounts all mounted file systems read-only. This prevents file system corruption.

6. <ALT> <SysRq> <b> reboots the system. Alternatively, replace the 'b' with an 'o' to turn the machine off.

If you look at this sequence, you see that you are - apart from the first step - actually emulating the 'init' shutdown process. Therefore it is important that you press these sequences in the correct order (e.g. that you 'sync' the drives before remounting them): Raw -Sync - tErm - kIll -Umount - reBoot.

Edit: As Hunter Lupe wrote in an eariler post, these functions for the SysRq key only pertain to the Linux kernel. Don't try this on Windows, kids!

Last edited by linux on Thu Mar 10, 2005 3:28 pm, edited 1 time in total.

[dargonz]

SysRq button seems scary...