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Looking for a recommendation for a solid screenshot app. I've seen a few but want some recommendations before jumping in as I am under a deadline of sorts.

Also, if anyone knows of a screenshot app that has the ability to upload pics to Flickr and Share on Ovi, that would be great too.

I use an application called Load Applet (a statusbar plugin) to take screenshots. It does a lot more things than just taking screenshots, but most of them are useful.

http://maemo.org/downloads/product/OS2008/load-applet/

mh-shot-tool handles portrait mode (which is why I switched to it) and shows a preview with options "Flickr this" and "Save As..." after a capture. You can also do arbitrary delay. It saves as PNG only, unfortunately, but that's better than JPEG only... (I just wish it could auto-JPG to save me a step when attaching shots in itT forums.)

It's in the maemo-hackers repo; consult gronmayer for details...

I uses Load Applet for screenshots as stated above, then Publishr to send to flickr. Still haven't found a decent one which does both.

Is mh-shot-tool not "a decent one", or have you not tried it yet?

this one aint too bad...

http://www.internettablettalk.com/fo...00&postcount=2

Hi;
I finally have my n810 in hand, using it to post this!

Benson, please move my post if this is breach of protocol. I saw the screenshots thread, and one thing led to anoher...

I'm in desperate need of some "how-tos" - I enjoy RTFMs and dont want to waste everyones time in the forums. If i could just get over an initial hump, I will be fine. I have some experience with SUSE and red hat, but am not linux geek. Confused about:
* su - i've read the posts on becomeroot, but can't get the app to install, and am puzzled as to why su does not work from terminal. Would try via openSSH, but please see next item. Just want to try simple things like ping for now.
* have installed and ran several gui-based apps ok, but others, such as load-applet, install ok but don't come with a readme that explains how to launch them. Tried "find" but having synax probs. No man pages available.

I really love this little gizmo, and have great hopes for it. I installed 2g sd card, and flashed it to the latest version. WiFi works great.

So please let me know if those howtos are out there; Im willing to read and read, just need a push in the right direction.

Thanks,
Steve

First off, I'm not a mod, nor anything special.

su doesn't work, nor is it readily workable; you could, but it's a hassle. When you install gainroot, the command it enables is No man pages is an issue with ITOS setup; it includes a program that rips man pages & other docs out when packages do install them; they're considered a "waste of space". A little irritating; some people have disabled it, but I never got around to it. I get man pages mainly by doing a google search on man command; (almost) every UNIX tool I've searched this way that doesn't have a man page (from some UNIX or other) as the first result, so you can type it in the address bar of the browser, which does a Google I'm-feeling-lucky query. (The one exception is date; man date gets some random article about a "man date", which is about as gay as it sounds. )

You can use find, but you'll probably want to install a locate variant; mlocate's my pick.

For load-applet, specifically, and applets in general:
Control panel applets show up in the control panel, always.
Status bar applets (including load-applet), along with Navigator applets, are controlled from the Panels Control panel applet.
Home applets are controlled through the menu at the top of the Home screen.
For some reason, I'm thinking there were 5 kinds of applets; I only listed 4, so I'll mention the other if I remember.

But the important thing: no applet is ever launched by itself; they only show up in their respective section of the desktop environment...

Thanks;
Making progress and have solved many of my probs. Used openSSH to gain root, used find to llocate stuff. Now have vpnc-gui working and was even able to use vncviewer .6 for a while over the vpn before it quit working. More details when I'm on a puter with a real keyboard.

Thanks for your patience,
Steve