[John LeMay]
I need to take screen shots for different applications /tools within Suse Linux 8.1 with KDE . Can anyone advise how to proceed.
Wow, I can't believe no one mentioned the one tool I've used to take screenshots for years now - The Gimp! Open the Gimp File - Acquire - Screenshot Then choose between "Whole screen" and use the "after x seconds delay" to give you time to move Gimp or your pointer out of the way, or you can use the "single window" and go with or without "decorations" (the window manager part of the window - title bar, buttons, frame). Never used anything else, so I can't say if it's any better or worse than anything else.
However good GIMP is, launching it is a bit big operation for a mere
screen shot. I prefer the `import' program from Image Magick, and uses
it through the following script, named `click' here. I usually type:
click GOAL.png
for creating file GOAL.png to hold the screen shot I want. There is a
three second delay first, and then reasonable default options -- you
may use arguments to override or select other options which `import'
recognises. The last argument is the file name you want to create.
Once the cross appears, you may either click on a window to take a photo
of that window, or drag a rectangle of the size you want for parts of
windows, or spans of windows.
Long ago, I was making `.gif' images, which I do not really use anymore.
For `.gif', Image Magick was not making best compressed image, in which
case the script below uses some `netpbm' tools to repack it.
Have fun!
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