Qubes Screenshot Tool with imgurl auto upload available. [beta]

[Eva Star]

Okey. I released tool that can automatically capture fullscreen/windows/regions and upload it to AppVM and imgurl automaticaly.

Now it is in beta state and tested only with Qubes 3.2rc1, but I think it will work with other Qubes starting from R3.0 or R3.1 (where qvm-run is available)

Full description and download you can find here: 

https://github.com/evadogstar/qvm-screenshot-tool

 

Test it and I hope you will be happy with it as I am :) Because screenshots is one weak side of Qubes (before this tool done ;) 

Plans: 

* add editor for images at AppVM to blur some arias on image... (suggest are welcome)

* multiple selections -> one screenshots -> upload it

* delayed screenshots

* maybe uploading any existed image from dom0 to imgurl after selecting it on dialog

Enjoy but remember that is only beta

[Eva Star]

If you are not sure, maybe wait until somebody will review it and confirm.

[Eva Star]

Other notes: 

* It is ready for GNOME and it's developed and tested under XFCE

[Andrew David Wong]

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Thank you for doing this!

I've added your message and a link to this thread to the issue we have
for this:

https://github.com/QubesOS/qubes-issues/issues/953#issuecomment-
230137991

And added you as the developer for this on the feature tracker:

https://www.qubes-os.org/qubes-issues/

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Andrew David Wong (Axon)
Community Manager, Qubes OS
https://www.qubes-os.org
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[Eva Star]

I done some research and found that we can send screenshot to gthumb (Gnome Thumbs) and add the ability into it to upload screenshots to imgurl like tool already do. But it does not solve anything. 

We need some lightweight image editing software at AppVM to edit image for:

1) annotate

2) blur some area

3) crop.

Gthumb can only crop. Maybe GIMP? But it's too heavy.

Also there is Shutter at Fedora Fusion repository. But it have a lot of dependencies ( 2 Mb Shutter + 100 mb dependencies) 

[Eva Star]

new version with editor available :) now it's possibile to edit scrrenshots before move them to appvm or upload to imgurl

[Eva Star]

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Great improvement!

Now the qvm-screenshot-tool support editing of screenshots before
uploading them to AppVM or Imgurl !

You can draw lines, annotate text, additionally crop images, add
filters, hide some unwanted areas, composite images, draw lines and much
more!

Please, read documentation how to use editor tool, before use it.

As you do not like to read. I can say that before exiting from the
editor you must save your screenshot to predefined slot at
0000-SAVE-EDITED-SHOT-HERE-TO-PROCESS.png
And if you do so, then new edited image will be uploaded.

https://github.com/evadogstar/qvm-screenshot-tool/

Enjoy!
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[Adrian Rocha]

Many thanks Eva,

I'm testing it. First at all, its a great idea and, I appreciate very much your work.

I have two minor issues with the script:

1)

[user@dom0 Imágenes]$ ./qvm-screenshot-tool.sh 

[FATAL] no "zenity" tool at dom0 installeted use: \n\nsudo qubed-dom0-update zenity command to add it first

(Instead of "qubed-dom0-update is "qubes-dom0-update")

As I understand, in some versions of bash, the "\n" don't works as expected. So, I propose to change "echo" by "printf". You just have to add a "\n" at the end.

2) I have dom0 in spanish. So, my Pictures folder is /home/user/Imágenes/ instead of /home/user/Pictures/. But when I run the script, it is saving the pictures in "/home/user/Pictures/" instead of ".../Imágenes"

To obtain the correct directory to save the file you can use this command:

xdg-user-dir PICTURES

/home/user/Imágenes

Best Regards!

[Eva Star]

> (Instead of "qubed-dom0-update is "qubes-dom0-update")

thank you

> As I understand, in some versions of bash, the "\n" don't works as expected. So, I propose to change "echo" by "printf". You just have to add a "\n" at the end.

thanks. I will fix it.

> 2) I have dom0 in spanish. So, my Pictures folder is /home/user/Imágenes/ instead of /home/user/Pictures/. But when I run the script, it is saving the pictures in "/home/user/Pictures/" instead of ".../Imágenes"
> To obtain the correct directory to save the file you can use this command:
> xdg-user-dir PICTURES
> /home/user/Imágenes
>

is it portable way to get PICTURES directory on other unix based systems?

[Eva Star]

https://github.com/evadogstar/qvm-screenshot-tool/
new version available, fixed issue with different "pictures" directory
name on some languages/systems.
Now Qubes Screenshot Tool will check dom0 "pictures"directory name and
destination VM pictures directory name, before uploading image into it.

[Adrian Rocha]

xdg-user-dir is a freedesktop.org tool. As I know, it works on Linux, Solaris and BSD. In the case of dom0, is a Fedora Linux, so we haven't any problem here. The issue can be with the VMs that doesn't have this command. There have to think in another way for this cases.

[Eva Star]

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On 07/05/2016 07:51 PM, Adrian Rocha wrote:

>> is it portable way to get PICTURES directory on other unix based
>> systems?
>
> xdg-user-dir is a freedesktop.org tool. As I know, it works on
> Linux, Solaris and BSD. In the case of dom0, is a Fedora Linux, so
> we haven't any problem here. The issue can be with the VMs that
> doesn't have this command. There have to think in another way for
> this cases.
>

It's the question to Qubes Team. Will xdg-user-dir available at dom0
or not.
But do not worry, I'm already fix this. If there will no tool
available we will continue with default ~/Pictures directory.


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Regards

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[Marek Marczykowski-Górecki]

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On Tue, Jul 05, 2016 at 07:55:36PM +0300, Eva Star wrote:
> On 07/05/2016 07:51 PM, Adrian Rocha wrote:
>
> >> is it portable way to get PICTURES directory on other unix based
> >> systems?
> >
> > xdg-user-dir is a freedesktop.org tool. As I know, it works on
> > Linux, Solaris and BSD. In the case of dom0, is a Fedora Linux, so
> > we haven't any problem here. The issue can be with the VMs that
> > doesn't have this command. There have to think in another way for
> > this cases.
> >
>
> It's the question to Qubes Team. Will xdg-user-dir available at dom0
> or not.
> But do not worry, I'm already fix this. If there will no tool
> available we will continue with default ~/Pictures directory.

Yes, it is and will be available.

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Best Regards,
Marek Marczykowski-Górecki
Invisible Things Lab
A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?

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[Marek Marczykowski-Górecki]

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On Mon, Jul 04, 2016 at 07:44:25PM +0300, Eva Star wrote:
> Great improvement!
>
> Now the qvm-screenshot-tool support editing of screenshots before
> uploading them to AppVM or Imgurl !
>
> You can draw lines, annotate text, additionally crop images, add
> filters, hide some unwanted areas, composite images, draw lines and much
> more!

Nice!

> Please, read documentation how to use editor tool, before use it.
>
> As you do not like to read. I can say that before exiting from the
> editor you must save your screenshot to predefined slot at
> 0000-SAVE-EDITED-SHOT-HERE-TO-PROCESS.png
> And if you do so, then new edited image will be uploaded.

Why using separate filename? I think you can operate on original image -
if you do made some modifications - that's ok, but if don't the file
will be unchanged.

> https://github.com/evadogstar/qvm-screenshot-tool/
>
> Enjoy!

>

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Best Regards,
Marek Marczykowski-Górecki
Invisible Things Lab
A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?

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[Eva Star]

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> Why using separate filename? I think you can operate on original
> image - if you do made some modifications - that's ok, but if don't
> the file will be unchanged.

Unfortunately, because of IM display tool GUI interface is very ugly
and it want to get direction from the user on "Save" command.
Save is work like "Save As", but it also does not show the name of
already opened file. User must choose the name from full list or type
the name. This solution show the name of the temp file at the top of
all others, because the file start with "0000-" and it's very simple
to click on it and confirm overwrite. Then Quit from GUI to continue.

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Regards

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[Eva Star]

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https://i.imgur.com/VkgnMc0.png
Save dialog

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[Marek Marczykowski-Górecki]

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On Tue, Jul 05, 2016 at 09:19:28PM +0300, Eva Star wrote:
>
> > Why using separate filename? I think you can operate on original
> > image - if you do made some modifications - that's ok, but if don't
> > the file will be unchanged.
> Unfortunately, because of IM display tool GUI interface is very ugly
> and it want to get direction from the user on "Save" command.
> Save is work like "Save As", but it also does not show the name of
> already opened file. User must choose the name from full list or type
> the name. This solution show the name of the temp file at the top of
> all others, because the file start with "0000-" and it's very simple
> to click on it and confirm overwrite. Then Quit from GUI to continue.

Ah, I see.

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Best Regards,
Marek Marczykowski-Górecki
Invisible Things Lab
A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?

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[JPL]

Works really well. Thanks. Another job made a hell of a lot easier.

[Eva Star]

Thanks for your feedback! :)