Well someone asked a good question this morning, how to make the print screen key capture a screen shot. This what I did with fvwm2, and it's pretty neat. Get xbindkeys from http://hocwp.free.fr/xbindkeys/xbindkeys.html It builds very easy with configure,make, make install. Then run "xbindkeys --key" A little window will pop up asking you to hit a key, hit the Print Screen Key, and and little window will open to show you the code to enter into the .xbindkeysrc file "NoCommand " m:0x0 + c:111 Print Cut and paste that into your .xbindkeysrc file and change it to something like this: "import -window root `date +%d%b%y%H%M%S`.jpg " m:0x0 + c:111 Print Screen That will drop a date-labeled jpg into your homedir everytime you hit the Print Screen button. Then just figure out a way to automatically start xbindkeys when you startx. Many methods are available. If you want to get clever, you could probably work out a command to actually send it to the printer....or you could just assign that to another key using the above method. -- I'm not really a human, but I play one on earth.