On Sat, 1 Dec 2001, tek1 wrote:
> At 00:31 01/12/01 -0600, you wrote:
> >On Friday 30 November 2001 10:23 am, you wrote:
> > > taking screenshots
> > > ----------------
> > >
> > > can anyone describe briefly how you take screenshots in xwindows?
> >
> >If you're using KDE then ksnapshot is pretty nice. It's in the K menu at
> >multimedia -> graphics -> Screen capture
>
> wow! that is a great program! thanks! it would be neat to also be able
> to save as .jpg, but i guess that many of the graphic converters out there
> could easily do it. can you recommend any? thanks again! :)
ImageMagick should work. The import command allows you to
specify output format and either a window or a region - left
click on window or root window or click and drag for screen
region.
e.g. import thatwindow.jpg
import thescreen.gif
import abitofhtescreen.png
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