On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 5:39 PM, chris (fool) mccraw <[email protected]>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. > > 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 seldom need just a full screen shot, unadulterated. I almost always want to select a portion of the screen, often a portion of a window. Then I want to adjust the quality of the jpg, based upon the resulting size and appearance. -Denis _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
