[GTALUG] ftp helper app, and how to screenshot on Ubuntu 21.04?

[Mauro Souza]

For screenshots I use flameshot, I am using RedHat but I believe it should
be a package for Ubuntu. I used Shutter before that for a long time, and
ended up building it on RedHat because it was deprecated, but now the build
process is painful and Flameshot fits the bill.
If you have imagemagick, import can screenshot for you. Pop up a terminal,
run sleep 1 ; import -window root /tmp/whatever.png , minimize the terminal
and done. I use it for my still work in progress home-made workday logging
tool. I capture the screen every minute, use imagemagick compare to
quantify how much the window changed since the last time, and if it changed
it will screenshot it, save to a capture directory, run tesseract on it,
and index on elasticsearch. And I wrote a small PHP script to search on
those archives. It's on https://github.com/thoriumbr/SuperBusca if someone
is interested. It runs on a container, so it should not pollute your system
if you just want to test.

For FTP I use Filezilla, but some people like gFTP, or you can use
Nautilus, it has FTP capability.

Mauro
https://www.maurosouza.com - registered Linux User: 294521
Scripture is both history, and a love letter from God.


Em sáb., 5 de jun. de 2021 às 11:50, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk <
talk at gtalug.org> escreveu:

> | From: Stewart C. Russell via talk <talk at gtalug.org>
>
> | Hi - so browsers don't support ftp:// links any more
> | <https://www.somagnews.com/mozilla-firefox-drops-support-for-ftp/>,
>
> I knew that was coming.  I didn't understand the reason.  But the release
> notes surely have a rationale.
>
> FTP-through-NAT, especially through firewalls, is a real hack.
>
> FTP has no built-in authentication or encryption.
>
> | and
> | I was wondering what people used as a drop-in app?
>
> CLI all the way!  I've always used wget(1).  With the -N flag.
>
> - this gets me a copy: I always worry that archives go away.
>
> - this gets me the timestamp.  I find timestamps very useful for
>   archived material.
>
> | this change came out of nowhere.
>
> I understand that this happened some time ago with Chrom*.  (I don't
> use them much.)
>
>
> | Also, my go-to screenshot thingy /*scrot*/ no longer works on Ubuntu
> | 21.04:
>
> gnome-screenshot AKA ScreenShot should work.
>
> On Fedora, I type:
>
>         "Windows-key" to show activities
>
>         "s c r e" into the search box.  ScreenShot should be its first
>         suggestion
>
>         "ENTER" to run that suggestion.
>
> I hope that description is less painful to decode than it was to
> encode.
>
> | My keyboard doesn't have a PrtSc key so I can't use any of the built-in
> | screenshot tools.
>
> I bet you could map this function onto something else on your
> keyboard.  I've not done it.
>
> | Is this a Wayland thing? I thought Wayland was
> | supposed to be compatible with X?
>
> Compatible for X applications.  Not users.
>
> I'm a moderately pliable and undemanding user.  Wayland is fine for
> me.
>
> My desktop is another matter.  It has an nvidia card.  Old enough that
> nouveau supports it.  But the few times I've tried nouveau, it
> misbehaved.  So I use the proprietary driver.  It doesn't get along
> with Wayland.  So I'm still on X.
>
> All my many other devices run Wayland.  Except possibly the laptop
> with an nvidia GPU.
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