Howto make screenshots including mouse pointer and expanded menus on linux

Today I figured out how to take screenshots including mouse pointers and expanded menus on my linux system. As I got it finally working I was really statisfied, because this is one of the features I’m still missing for example in KSnapshot. So here’s how I got it working. No rocket science, just simple. The only thing I did was installing my favorite windows screenshot tool on linux using wine. Took a screenshot. Ready!

Here we go:

1. install “wine” from your linux distribution repository:
   - for adept use:
   # apt-get install wine or get it from here: http://www.winehq.org/site/download
2. download the winXP version of xnview from here: http://pagesperso-orange.fr/pierre.g/xnview/endownload.html
3. install it using wine:
   # wine XnView-win-full-de.exe
   
4. start XnView go to Tools > Capture screen:
   

   You can’t effect the Capture area. XnView will always capture the entire desktop. To get single windows or region screenshots you have to use the “crop” function afterwards. Even the “Hot key” option doesn’t work. So you can only use the “delay” method. That’s because XnView can’t handle th e whole X-Server and multiple desktop stuff on linux, I suppose. Here’s a screenshot including mouse pointer and expanded menu:

   

   Yeah! :-]