Ubuntu :: Want To Set Up A Scheduled Task To Take A Screen Shot?
Feb 13, 2011
I have my background as a satellite picture of the earth. Right now I have a scheduled task to grab that picture off the internet (the website updates it every three hours) so my background is a 'live' snapshot of the earth.
I want to set up a scheduled task to take a screen shot every three hours, so that I can see, for example, the way the earth changes over the course of a day...a week, etc. I already have the Scheduled Task Manager from Gnome, but would anyone know what command I could use to do this?
My biggest problem is figuring out how to change the name of the picture it saves it as every time. (e.g. earth1.jpg, earth2.jpg, earth3.jpg, etc.)
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Jan 10, 2011
i was reading on how to do scheduled tasks, however i couldnt find anything that was a scheduled task to copy a whole folder to a NAS(Network Storage) thats linked on my ubuntu desktop every 4 hours or so.
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Sep 10, 2010
I am trying to get Scheduled Task to run a bash script (which runs an rsync command) but it does not seem to be running. I can run the script from the command line with out a problem, but I have it scheduled in Scheduled Tasks to run once everyday and I can't find any evidence of it running or any indication why it does not run. is there a better GUI for scheduling tasks? I am running 10.04 server with xbuntu desktop
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Dec 17, 2009
I centos version 5 installed on server 2, and I want to make a scheduled task that executes a shell script.This script should copy some files and directories from one server to another. I do not use DRBD and Heartbeat.
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Feb 28, 2010
i have ubuntu 9 10 i have been searching in the internet but i have not found a solution, my problem is that i cant capture the screen with screen shot key (ptr sc) my keyboard has it under the key home, so in windows i have to use the
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Apr 14, 2011
Whenever I try to take a screen shot with a menu open the menu disappears. Is this correct, and if not how do I put it right?
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May 17, 2011
I'm using Ubuntu 11.04. In a startup script, I have
Code:
start() {
log_daemon_msg "Starting selenium-server server: "
export DISPLAY=localhost:15.0
/usr/bin/Xvfb :15 -ac -screen 0 1024x768x16 &
From the console, how do I take a screen shot of the display at localhost:15.0 -- my DISPLAY above?
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Mar 26, 2010
I have Ubuntu Server Ed. installed (so no Gnome) and was wondering if it's possible to capture screen shot images?
I'm using Subversion, and need to capture screen shots of some merge collisions you see.
Everything is being done via the terminal.
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Jun 29, 2011
how do i screen shot or print screen boot menu & save to file, tried pressing print screen when booting then paste, would not work, this for a futher question once this one is solved
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Jan 13, 2011
Does anyone know the name of the volume applet (package) shown in the screen shot? I want to remove it. I'm on 10.10 and it appears every time I switch sound output from the SoundMenu.
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Feb 14, 2011
i want to make a screen capture program for linux as my software engineering project. but i am not getting from where to start. i have a bit knowlege of gtk and that of c/c++ but from where can i get other references which i should know for building it.
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Mar 24, 2010
I am new to Ubuntu and facing a strange problem right now.
I want to take a screen shot of FF browser with expanded menu items.
I could take the same without expanded menu items, but when I click say File/Edit/View and then click on Prnt Scrn nothing happens.
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Dec 7, 2009
I place the key in the wireless key section but the activate (ok) button is greyed out. Sorry can't give a screen shot because I am using my Win 7 boot at time. Oh yeah I am using Fedora 12 x64 on my laptop.
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May 2, 2010
i tried to install ubuntu netbook remix edition 10.04 on my laptop HP Compaq 550 through a usb flash stick ... with the usb creator which included into the iso image i got this msg (( attached screen-shot )) .i tried another application which makes a usb bootable disk called "UNetbootin" it boots successfully but after booting every thing got FREEZED ... i tried the same thing with ubuntu 9.10 it's succeed .. but i neeed to install 10.04 .
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Oct 30, 2010
Is there any command /utility in linux that would Take screen shot of non focused window or minimized Window?
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May 29, 2011
After upgrading from 10.10 to 11.04 all of a sudden, the task manager or task bar, keeps changing length. The individual window "buttons" themselves keep changing size - flashing even, and the space between them also changes. It is driving me nuts! The little system tray(?) icons no longer appear in the system tray, but all stacked on top of each other in the top left corner.
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Jun 26, 2011
Anybody knows how to fix overlapping tasks in KDE system taskbar?Here System Monitor overlaps with digiKamWorkaround to rearrange icons - start any new task.Sorry for taking real photo of the screen. When I do PrintScreen KSnapShot task appears in the list and makes all task to rearrange. The resulting screenshot contains already fixed view.
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Feb 10, 2011
How do you launch a task from a terminal command line interface and it not be kill'ed if you close the terminal window. Like if I run jedit I type jedit & which launches jedit as a backgorund task. But, if I close terminal window, jedit dies to. How do I laucnch jedit and completely divorce it from the terminal task?
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May 19, 2011
I have my task list in evolution (mainly so it can sync with my phone and online task list) but I always forget to look at the task list. Is there an application or plugin which periodically displays the contents of the tasklist or even better, it briefly displays the most urgent/important tasks when I login? Or anything else which automatically displays the most important tasks. Currently I have to open the task list and look at them (which I usually forget). I do not mean some kind of alarm when the task is due but more a daily reminder of what to do.
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Apr 2, 2010
I installed it using the ppa instructions here [URL] The terminal says this when I try to run the program:
tshipp@Harold:~$ openshot
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OpenShot (version 1.1.2)
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*** ERROR: MLT Python bindings failed to import ***
[code]....
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May 11, 2010
I have a RHEL Machine. All I have is 5 Ethernet cards.I want all of them to be assigned IP through DHCP while I boot my system.
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Apr 3, 2010
I use Kaffeine to record live TV to disk for later playback. I've been putting up with Kaffeine's little foibles for the last little while, but tonight (for the second night in a row) I accidentally closed it and consequently it didn't record anything.
Is there any software I can use to construct a recording schedule which will then not be dependent on me remembering to leave a particular app running? I don't really need this in MPEG4 or anything. The PC stays on 24x7 - I just need it to launch a recording at the correct time.
I've avoided MythTV in all it's incarnations because I want the computer to still function as a normal PC most of the time, and from my admittedly brief trial of MythTV it took over the PC and wouldn't let me open a web browser or a mail client.
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Oct 5, 2010
I scheduled a job, 'ls -a', with the at command, 3 minutes in the future. It looks like the job ran, but I cannot see the results of 'ls -a'. I accessed my mail with the 'mail' command and saw that the output of my scheduled job was message 1. I typed in '1' after the & prompt, and saw that the subject of the message was the output of my job, scheduled at the time specified with the 'at' command. I cannot see the output of the 'ls -a' command that I scheduled though. How do I see the contents of the message, and the actual output of the job.
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Jun 27, 2011
i have made a search on this subject and i always find the cron to be the solution for me. But i am asking because i think what i want can be done differently. i have a command line to grab stream and save it. i want this command to be run at different time (hours) on specific days. i should use the "at", as far as i saw here on the forum. But are there other way to do it? can i have a simple script that i run the day of the event, before this occur?
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Apr 18, 2011
I work with this travel company that host sites for different agents. They have ALL the sites in one directory and each site has its own search.php file. How can I locate, and change all the search.php files permissions to 644 in one shot? Is this possible maybe with the find command? I read the man page for this but I am not sure how to write out the command.
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Jun 3, 2011
I have several commands in a bash script, and in the middle of the script there are several commands whose output and error streams I want to redirect to a file. I think I could simply add '>> myfile.txt' to the end of every command, but is there a way to set it before that block of commands, then reset the streams to their original state at the end of that block?
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Dec 1, 2009
Trying to recover data off a shot hard drive. XP system. says I don't have permission to open the drives/folders.. not the owner...
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Nov 7, 2010
When I try to launch it from the System Tools sub folder, I see it appear for a second and then it disappears. What should I do? This is the code displayed when I try running it from the Terminal.
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Apr 29, 2011
Basically what I wanted to know is, if we turn the computer off (or hibernate/standby) - what will cron do with the tasks that were suppose to be scheduled during that time period the moment u turn it back on? Reason I ask is because i have a backup scheduled for every single hour. And another one I want to schedule for every 15mins. If I turn my comp in standby overnite, I certainly don't want to turn it on in the morning to find cron doing like 30 back up jobs!
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May 23, 2011
I am running a series of operations on executable matlab scripts which are connecting python and fortran scripts. I schedule the executables in cron. The problem:
- My original matlab scripts work perfectly.
- My executables work perfectly if I run them from the terminal. - Using the gui scheduled tasks and running the scripts once from a button, everything also works fine.
- But when I leave the scheduled tasks run on their own, I get an error! The error can be that the script hangs in general (I have some text logs exported every step to track the progress), or I get an error which never appears when I run the script with any of the other mentioned ways.
- I tried both cron command prompt or the GUI scheduled tasks
- I am running on Ubuntu 64 bit
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