I looked around and couldn't find a way to take screenshots. The apps aren't in the repo, or not for Diablo. What does everyone here use to take screenshots on their N810s?

Check out some of those status bar 'load' applets. Several of them have a built-in screenshot capability: In addition to show you your current CPU usage, you can click on it and a little menu will pop up - in some of these tools there's a screenshot option. Look for the status bar applet applications, check the description, and see if it mentions screenshot.

I use 'load-applet-run' (if I recall the name correctly), but I'm not sure if it's still available for OS2008. I'm on OS2007.

like ta-t3 said, you can use load applets to start the process. I have osso-statusbar-cpu installed, and use two custom commands to take screenshots using the below code to call osso-screenshot-tool. the code takes a parameter of seconds (0 or 3 or whatever you want).

the custom commands that i have are:

Desc: Take screenshot now
Command: sh /home/user/sShot.sh 0

Desc: Take screenshot - 3 secs
Command: sh /home/user/sShot/sh 3

this assumes that you have the osso-screenshot-tool installed, and that the code below is in a file called sShot.sh and is located in /home/user/ and is set to executeable ("chmod 700 /home/user/sShot.sh" without the quotes, from command line using xterm). i also use flite to synth the completion. you can comment it out, or remove the line if you dont want to use it.
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#!/bin/bash
sleep $1

stamp=`date +%Y%m%d-%H%M`
i=1
path=/home/user/MyDocs/.images
if mount | grep -q mmc
then
path=/media/mmc1
fi

while [ -f $path/shot-$stamp-`printf %02d $i`.png ]
do
i=$((i+1))
done
osso-screenshot-tool $path/shot-$stamp-`printf %02d $i`.png
flite "Screenshot complete"
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i did nt understand you have to install an application ?

A related question: on the N900, is it possible to take a screen shot of the front camera image (using the "mirror" app)?

Thanks!

The dates of the original threads indicate that the N900 wasn't in consumer existence yet. On a N900, you simply press Ctrl+P to capture a screenshot.

i cant do it,
the ctrl is in the top right of the keyboard ? with the symbol ctrl+sym ?

Press Sym Ctrl and the shift key (white arrow) and P all at the same time

Yes, hit that button and 'p' at the same time.

On the N900, the screenshot is saved in the 'images' folder

ok i did it thanks


* Do you know any manuel of keybord shortcuts, tips like copy paste etc ?