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How To Take A Screenshot Of Your Login Screen Normally you use a screenshot tool to take screenshots of your Linux desktop. Unfortunately, this doesn't work if you want to take a screenshot of your login prompt. This tutorial explains how you can take a screenshot of your Linux desktop login screen nevertheless.

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By: An Arch Guy

Save all the trouble. simply install SLiM. Pressing F11 gives you a screenshot of the login screen.

By: borderamigos

On my Debian box I just press PrtScrn and it does a screen capture.

By: Anonymous

Sorry, I fail to see how installing an entirely new Login Manager is "saving all the trouble".

By: istok

i know ubuntu users who take photos of their login screen with their phone cameras.

true story.

 

 

 

By: Anonymous

This is what I was looking for when I wrote my article about switching between Unity and GNOME. http://linuxblog.darkduck.com/2011/05/4-terribly-easy-steps-to-move-away-from.html

By: Anonymous

Hey, i use ubuntu 12.04, and get the following error :

No protocol specified
No protocol specified
import: unable to open X server `:0.0' @ error/import.c/ImportImageCommand/366

 Could you please help me out with this?

By: AndyLevy

GREAT!  I've been trying to take a screenshot of my log-in screen in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.1 for a while now and THIS finally did it. Thanks!!