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Does anyone here know a way to take screenshots on the Gameshell?

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xdg is your friend! Let me find a link…
code:

export DISPLAY=:0
xwd -root -out screenshot.xwd

Convert screenshot.xwd with ImageMagick’s “convert” or, open in Gimp and export that way (I use the gimp method).

I like this method because it’s already installed, and doesn’t require a ton of bloated libs be installed on your GS. Could also try the x112vnc stuff, but I had mixed results with that.

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Thanks for the help! I’m currently installing imagemagick and will try to capture & convert on the GS. I don’t have Gimp installed and don’t want it only for some screenshots… ^^

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Hmm

$ xwd -root -out screenshot.xwd
xwd: unable to open display ‘’

It doesn’t seem to work via SSH? How do you issue the command?

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(forgot to add that bit)

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Awesome, that did it!
I found a command that instantly converts to png, when imagemagick is installed, so

sudo apt-get install imagemagick

and then

xwd -root | convert xwd:- capture_01.png

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er…

sudo apt-get install imagemagick --fix-missing

Thanks for the tip!

LasVegas

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Oh, typo! Thanks - corrected it!

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lol, I love the tiny cloud icon

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Ok, I heard back from cuu.
I’m fixing the last hard-coded colors now.

I’ll add them to the pull request and hopefully everyone can have their beautiful colors on every page
:slight_smile:

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I saw an above mention about animation for the music player or the UI.

If any developers need or want to implement code with animation, let me know. I do motion graphics & animation and would be more then willing to contribute.

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My latest changes for skinning were included in the 1.22 update.
Please let me know if anyone sees any areas of the UI which aren’t themed

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Thanks for all the work you’ve done on this! I’ll gdt the additions added to my themes in the next few days.
Any idea where I can find these new additions, or what their called? I’m guessing they were added as options to the config.cfg file?
I’ll dig through the code when I’ve got some time.

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yup yup, “Disabled” and “Black” were added as colors to customize.
Here’s the complete list:

    Colors["High"] = pygame.Color(51, 166, 255)
    Colors["Text"] = pygame.Color(83, 83, 83)
    Colors["Front"] = pygame.Color(131, 199, 219)
    Colors["URL"] = pygame.Color(51, 166, 255)
    Colors["Line"] = pygame.Color(169, 169, 169)
    Colors["TitleBg"] = pygame.Color(228, 228, 228)
    Colors["Active"] = pygame.Color(175, 90, 0)
    Colors["Disabled"] = pygame.Color(204, 204, 204)
    Colors["White"] = pygame.Color(255, 255, 255)
    Colors["Black"] = pygame.Color(0, 0, 0)

We may want to start thinking about having the option for the UI to specify more granular colors with defaults.
ie: we could have a more specific color option like “MusicPlayer_Spectrum_BackgroundColor” with the default of “Black” if that value isn’t specified.

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Those tapedeck Screenshots from earlier, are these from the OP-1?

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Yup that’s right, made a gif that loops for pygame library for the player,
https://www.instagram.com/p/Bl69aTqlDHi/?utm_source=ig_share_sheet&igshid=r9fvge45zpro second picture

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i updated my skin, but still can’t get many of the colors to work.

@follower46 is your list supposed to be working with the 1.21 launcher, or do i need another version?

my config.cfg looks like this

[Colors]
High = #13ad3e		  # ???
Text = #ff6bda		  # Title bar text color (current selection and clock)
Front = #13ad3e		  # ???
URL = #13ad3e	      # ???
Line = #ffb2eb		  # border color of top and bottom title bar
TitleBg = #fdeef8	  # background color of top title bar
Active = #13ad3e	  # ???
Disabled = #13ad3e	  # ???
White = #fdeef8		  # launcher background color
Black = #13ad3e		  # ???

Only the four colors i added a description to seem to change anything in the launcher. Help with filling the ???s also would be appreciated :wink:

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Uh, sorry - you answered that part already. 1.22 is not available through the update function, how can it be installed?

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Cloning from github repo

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hi, can u please make a step by step guide for me because im bad at programming, im using FileZilla to navigate between the folders instead of cmd, FileZilla is the same as WinSCP, I just want to know what to change, will you make steps for me, im bad at programming

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