or scrot. On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 5:39 PM, chris (fool) mccraw <[email protected]>wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 15:59, Rich Shepard <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Slackware-13.1 has gimp-2.6.8 included (yes, the GIMP is up to 2.6.11, > but > > I'm using what comes in the distribution 'cause it's always been Good > > Enough). This version of the GIMP seems to have droped the screenshot > > acquire feature. The menus have moved off the tool window and I cannot > find > > the acquire option anywhere. > > > > Does anyone know where that capability has gone? Alternatively, what > other > > tool can do the job? (ImageMagick?) > > i use the old standby xwd. i think it must ship with x11 or something > because it's always Just Been There on whatever distro i've used. > > and xwd has the benefit that it does its work mostly on the command > line (i can't imagine opening gimp just to take a screenshot--it takes > seconds to launch, has more than one window, and i have to click in a > lot of places..). imagemagick will convert its output into jpg's or > whatever else you want. > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > -- Darren R. Couch [email protected] _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
