In the 'old' X11, there used to be a program xgrabsc, which would 'grab' a portion of the screen. That is:
You started the program and got some sort of little icon. You moved the icon to the upper left of the portion of the screen you wanted to capture. You clicked the mouse. The icon probably changed and now you strech the box, with this first point at the upper Left, to a lower right. You clicked again.
At this point you had some sort of graphics file that displayed the portion of the screen that you had captured, which you could (say) send to the printer, or include in a mail message.
That routine is long gone, I have to assume that something has replaced it, but I have no idea what it would be. Any ideas?
Reg Clemens wrote:
In the 'old' X11, there used to be a program xgrabsc, which would 'grab' a portion of the screen. That is:
You started the program and got some sort of little icon. You moved the icon to the upper left of the portion of the screen you wanted to capture. You clicked the mouse. The icon probably changed and now you strech the box, with this first point at the upper Left, to a lower right. You clicked again.At this point you had some sort of graphics file that displayed the portion of the screen that you had captured, which you could (say) send to the printer, or include in a mail message.
That routine is long gone, I have to assume that something has replaced it, but I have no idea what it would be. Any ideas?
Don't know what X program would take its place...maybe xwd helps a bit....
But, if you are running Gnome there is always gnome-screenshot and KDE has ksnapshot.
On Mon, 05 Oct 2009 10:58:31 +0800 Ed Greshko Ed.Greshko@greshko.com wrote:
Reg Clemens wrote:
In the 'old' X11, there used to be a program xgrabsc, which would 'grab' a portion of the screen. That is:
You started the program and got some sort of little icon. You moved the icon to the upper left of the portion of the screen you wanted to capture. You clicked the mouse. The icon probably changed and now you strech the box, with this first point at the upper Left, to a lower right. You clicked again.At this point you had some sort of graphics file that displayed the portion of the screen that you had captured, which you could (say) send to the printer, or include in a mail message.
That routine is long gone, I have to assume that something has replaced it, but I have no idea what it would be. Any ideas?
Don't know what X program would take its place...maybe xwd helps a bit....
But, if you are running Gnome there is always gnome-screenshot and KDE has ksnapshot.
You can use xv for this. xv.x86_64 3.10a.jumbopatch.20070520-10.fc10 @rpmfusion-nonfree-updates
BR, Bob
On Sun, Oct 04, 2009 at 08:16:28PM -0600, Reg Clemens wrote:
In the 'old' X11, there used to be a program xgrabsc, which would 'grab' a portion of the screen. ...
That routine is long gone, I have to assume that something has replaced it, but I have no idea what it would be. Any ideas?
Y'know, google (and its ilk) is your friend; search for "xgrabsc replacement", and the first hit says:
"you might check xwd, xwd2ps, pbmplus, ImageMagick, XtoPS, xpick or xv."
Cheers, -- Dave Ihnat dihnat@dminet.com
On Sun, 2009-10-04 at 20:16 -0600, Reg Clemens wrote:
In the 'old' X11, there used to be a program xgrabsc, which would 'grab' a portion of the screen. ... That routine is long gone, I have to assume that something has replaced it, but I have no idea what it would be. Any ideas?
On Gnome, there's the PRINT SCREEN button, pressed by itself for the full screen, or with the ALT key for just the active window.
You can run The Gimp, and then capture a screen through it. Which is more useful, as you can make it delay the capture, giving you time to set things up that mightn't, otherwise, be captured (menus, etc.).
No doubt, there's others, too.
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