-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 22 April 2003 10:57 pm, Ben Rosenberg wrote:

* Tom Emerson (osnut@pacbell.net) [030422 22:50]: [...] and one other I used on 8.0 that I cannot remember the name of [but I bet it ->was something like "ksnapshot" -- 8.0 would have used kde 2, and I don't ->think this application was migrated to kde 3]

Yes, ksnapshot comes with every version of KDE and it's in 8.0, 8.1 and 8.2 :)

Ahh. I suspect the "default" setting of "what parts of KDE to include" changed from 8.0 to 8.1, because (a) I noticed ksnapshot was "missing", and (b) pixie plus had the same functionality [which might have been the reason for (a)...] - -- Yet another Blog: http://osnut.homelinux.net -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2-rc1-SuSE (GNU/Linux) Comment: http://osnut.homelinux.net/TomEmerson.asc iD8DBQE+piwUV/YHUqq2SwsRAoG2AKCj8GZunquf6unqnj2JSoHeh2ioMgCfcgX5 dGS6xcWuTNYrOIQwub19DJo= =ULeB -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

[John LeMay]

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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! ----------------------------------------------------------------------> #!/bin/sh # Prendre copie d'un écran X. # Copyright © 1993, 1999, 2002 Universite de Montreal. # François Pinard , 1993. if [ $# = 0 ]; then echo 1>&2 "Usage: $0 IMAGE" exit 1; fi sleep 3 import -silent -descend -border 1x1 $* while [ $# -gt 1 ]; do shift done case $1 in *.gif) giftopnm $1 | ppmtogif > $1-tmp mv $1-tmp $1 ;; esac ----------------------------------------------------------------------< -- François Pinard http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~pinard