On Fri, 10 Dec 2010, chris (fool) mccraw wrote: > 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.
Thanks, Chris. I was totally unaware of this tool. The man page is brief and I'll have to experiment to learn how to use it. > 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. I would need to open a v.t. on the virtual desktop rather than opening GIMP. One window vs. three; probably a couple of seconds faster. The man page does not define the "specially formatted dump file" nor provide the extension to be passed to convert. I'll play with it Real Soon Now. Thanks, Rich _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
