RE: [Fluxbox-users] Screenshots?

[Simon B. <si...@cs...>]

Hello,

On Tue, 29 Jul 2003, Mark Knecht wrote:

> >
> > >    What's a good app for doing screen shots under fluxbox?

I'm quite surprised no-one has mentioned 'import'. That's the one I tend
to use. It is part of the Imagemagick set of tools (which also includes
the infinitely useful 'display' and 'convert').

These tools are all very nice because they support a large range of
formats for both import and export.

e.g.:
$ import /tmp/screenshot.png
then select an area of screen which will be saved to the png.

or
$ import -window root /tmp/screenshot.jpg
will take a shot of the whole screen, and save it to the JPEG file.

This is handy when combined with a sleep 5&& at the start to give you time
to minimise the term taking the shot, or move to another workspace.

Then you can also:
$ convert file.png file.jpg
$ display file.xpm
$ convert file.xpm file.png
 (or vice-versa).

And if you're into writing documents, this is really handy:
$ convert file.png file.eps

etc etc you get the point.

Cheers,

 - Simon

> > Have a look at scrot. In case you need a GUI for that give
> > http://jodrell.net/projects/sniper a try.
> >
> > Hendrik
>
> Hendrik & Roger,
>    Thanks!
>
>    OK, I should have mentioned that I'm on Gentoo. I'm an end-user type, so
> a GUI is helpful, but I didn't find an emerge for sniper. I did find a very
> light little program called xsnap that seems to be pretty cool. Start it,
> drag your mouse, another window with the screenshot appears, hit p to save,
> get an xpm file. This should serve my purpose very well.
>
>    Can someone recommend a very light program that could open and display an
> xpm file? I don't really want something as complicated and large as 'The
> Gimp'.
>
>    Thanks for your help.
>
> Cheers,
> Mark
>
>
>
>
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