How to take screenshots within qubes and within the whole OS?

How to take screenshots within qubes and within the whole OS?

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Run a screenshot tool in the qube for the “within qube” case, and use print screen key for a screenshot of the whole OS (it happens in dom0), it will run xfce4-screenshooter.

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What if many windows of the same qube are opened how the screenshot will appear?

Also where can I find xfce4-screenshot screenshots? in other words where they will be saved?

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the program will tell you, but they will end you in XDG_PICTURES_DIR as defined in ~/.config/user-dirs.dirs in dom0. For English users, it’ll be ~/Pictures.

If you have multiple windows opened on the same qube, and you take a screenshot from that qube, they will appear like this:

  • all opened (even if they are minimized from dom0 point of view)
  • all stacked in a single virtualk desktop (it’s dom0 point of view to use virtual desktops, the qube is not aware of this)
  • they should overlap in the order of being active, so latest active will appear above one that was active before
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If you take a screenshot of the whole screen the image will be stored in the Dom0 Qube. To exfiltrate it to an application Qube, use this in a Dom0 terminal.

qvm-copy-to-vm destination_vm files(s)’

qvm-copy-to-vm personal ~/Pictures/image.png

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