Desktop Screen shot

Is anyone able to recommend an app to take a desktop screen

shot?
Not one tied to any specific desktop environment.

			Thanks
			Sean
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If you don't want to install any special programs, xwd(1)
which comes with X 
is pretty good.  Its output is an X Window Dump (xwd).  You
can convert an X 
Window Dump to a PNG with ImageMagick's convert(1) program. 
You can pipeline 
the two commands together, but here is a simple two step
example.
UNIX>  xwd -root > display.xwd
UNIX>  convert display.xwd display.png

If you need something a bit more flashy, GIMP seems to be
the most popular.

Brian

On Friday 09 March 2007 9:51 am, Sean wrote:
> Is anyone able to recommend an app to take a desktop
screen
> shot?
> Not one tied to any specific desktop environment.
>
> 			Thanks
> 			Sean

070309 Sean wrote:
> Is anyone able to recommend an app to take a desktop
screen shot?
> Not one tied to any specific desktop environment.

My notes have :

  Imagemagick 'import' ;
  Gimp : File > Acquire > Screenshot ;
  Xorg : xwd (make) xwud (display) : G : man ;
  map 'import -window root ~/snap/snap`date +%s`.jpg' to
Printscreen key .

The Xorg items are Gentoo pkgs, which I don't have
installed.

On my normal KDE desktop, I use Ksnapshot;
at the moment, I'm playing with Xfce 4.4 , which ought to
have its own app,
but I'm not sure what it is: does anyone know ?

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On Fri, Mar 09, 2007 at 09:51:15AM -0500, Penguin Lover Sean
squawked:
> Is anyone able to recommend an app to take a desktop
screen 
> shot?
> Not one tied to any specific desktop environment.

Two off the top of my head:

1. the 'import' command from imagemagick. 
2. the 'xwd' program

Depends on your needs, either of the two might be better:

the 'import' command allows you to specify the output file
format,
whereas 'xwd' dumps the image to some X-specific format
(that you have
to later convert using imagemagick or something else), so on
the one
hand, 'import' can be simpler to use. 

on the other hand, 'xwd' is quicker (in my experience) at
dumping the
picture, since (I think) that it just pane-copies the
drawable without
interpreting/converting it. 'import' always seems to have a
delay that
feels about 0.5~1 sec. 

For myself, I bind 'import' to interactive taking of
screenshots, and
use 'xwd' for automated processes, such as creation of
on-the-fly
miniature icons for the windows, where I dump first, and
then call
imagemagick in the background to convert the result.

HTH

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On Fri, Mar 09, 2007 at 10:43:38AM -0500, Penguin Lover
Brian Micek squawked:
> If you don't want to install any special programs,
xwd(1) which comes with X 
> is pretty good.  Its output is an X Window Dump (xwd). 
You can convert an X 
> Window Dump to a PNG with ImageMagick's convert(1)
program.  You can pipeline 
> the two commands together, but here is a simple two
step example.

small addendum: for modular X, xwd is a separate package
called xwd,
you might need to emerge it before you can use it. 

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Thanks All.

Had Gimp in place, so I just used that.

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