Re: Open Book

[Kyle Burton <mortis@voicenet.com>]

You can try the import command, look at the -window and -frame switches.
It's what I've been using to do the screenshots of gperiodic.

  import -window GPeriodic -frame gperiodic.gif

  import -window root my_desktop.jpeg


k

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On Thu, 22 Jul 1999, Ramin Miraftabi wrote:

> * Bill Tihen (bill@tasis.ch) [990722]:
> > Question though.  How does one do a screen capture in Linux?  This
> > is important for the tutorials I write.
> 
> xwd will create a screen dump, the command:
> "xwd [-root] | xwdtopnm | pnmtopng > foobar.png" will create a png
> file, if -root is specified the whole root window will be grabbed, 
> otherwise xwd will wait for you to point a window for it to grab.
> (There are more options, man xwd.) I noticed that my pngs are tinted
> to the green side after the command, so I used The Gimp to do my
> screen captures.
> 
> (see http://cs.joensuu.fi/~ramin/desktop.png for a screenshot of my
> desktop.)
> 
> ramin
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