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[stu90]

Here is a script i made to display the current Puppy themes in use information then take a screen shot of its self with scrot.

Works with OpenBox and JWM windows managers.



Install:
Make sure the script is executable and move to /root/my-applications/bin/

Things to know:
You might need to tweek the Distro name section line #25 and #27 to get correct alignment for the puppy version you are running.
Colours can be changed on line #9 - #12
If you don't have scrot installed it will just display a readout with out taking a screen shot.

To Run:
Open a terminal and type the command pti

Or if you wanted to you could make a .desktop file and run it from that.
.desktop file example (change background colour and/or geometry for your terminal text size) :

[maik.murks]

Hi stu90.

First of all, thank you for providing the link to your new thread

It‘s cool that you‘ve added some more informations to your script

I‘ll download your script now and I‘ll give it a try somewhere during the next weekend.

So, thanks for the script

Cheers

Maik.Murks

[stu90]

[maik.murks]

Hi stu90.

I‘ve tried your script and in the end I have a full screenshot inclusive the terminal window where pti was started. But unfortunately it seems to be that I do something wrong. Would you please take a look to the attached pti1.jpg? Moreover, I don‘t know what the -u option is when pti calls scrot. Unfortunately my scrot don‘t know the -u option either. Would you please take a look to the attached pti2.jpg? Thank you.

Cheers

Maik.Murks

[stu90]

Hello maik.murks,

From your screen shot it looks like you need to alter your theme_switcher script as described in my post above - if you have already done this try changing the JWM theme with the GUI > JWM configuration > Choose a JWM theme, then check to see if the file /root/.jwm/currentjwmtheme has been created with the theme name in it.

It looks like the version of scrot you are using is missing some options - the -u option is to take a screen shot of only the current focused window.
You can see the options in the scrot i am using in this image:
http://i.imgur.com/LqNMB.jpg

For a better alignment try using something like:

[maik.murks]

Hi stu90.

Thank you very much for your informations given. It seemed to be that I‘m using a quite different version of scrot and that this version haven‘t got anything like making a direct screenshot of the current focused window. Well, perhaps it would be a good idea to take a closer look to scrot as it seemed to be a very nice and tiny tool. But I need some time.

WM theme is OK now, after editing the theme_switcher script as you mentioned above. Thank you very much. For the other informations being left so far, I have to take a closer look to where ever this Puppy is hiding these informations. When I have some more time.

So, thank you very much again for your effort

Cheers

Maik.Murks