On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 5:39 PM, chris (fool) mccraw <[email protected]>wrote:
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>
> 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.
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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
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