When working on Debian* or a Debian-based system, screen captures can be taken and stored continuously on Linux* with no interruptions to your current work.
Take screen captures in the background while working. Not interruptions, no wasted time - except sorting after, possibly.
What is this good for:
- Validation documentation
- Experimentation documentation
- Developer Experience capture (running in the background)
* video could be an option but resource consuming.
Requirements:
OS: Debian*
Depends: scrot*
apt install scrot
Make the time variable editable with a gui front using zenity - if you want (apt install zenity)
Sample Simple Script - Screen Capture using scrot*
Duration: Runs for duration indicated in script (default: for i in {1..360}; )
Default time for each capture in seconds: Every 5 seconds.
Images directory: ~/Pictures
The images may need a different dir to push to. You may need to create a directory to place images (mkdir thisdir). You could even add some code for making a dir to the script. Name the script.
Example: ss.sh
#!/bin/bash
for i in {1..360};
do
scrot -d 5 '%Y-%m-%d-%H:%M:%S.png' -e 'mv $f ~/Pictures/';
done
Run script:
./ss.sh
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