FC4: How to capture a window's screen snapshot?

[A. G.]

On Sun, 2005-09-18 at 19:44 +0200, Eric Tanguy wrote:
> Le dimanche 18 septembre 2005 à 13:23 -0400, Graham Campbell a écrit :
> > On Sun, 2005-09-18 at 09:32 -0700, David Le wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > Running FC4, I want to capture a screen snapshot of a
> > > displayed window and save it into a word document. I
> > > tried Ctrl-PrintScreen to copy and paste it to Writer
> > > Word processor as I did with Windows XP, but it didn't
> > > work. Please let me know how can I do that?
> > 
> > Right click on menu bar, select Add to Panel, select Take Screenshot.
> > This gives you a clickable icon to snap the whole display and then the
> > choice of where to store the png file.
> > 
> > Another option, From the RedHat menu button, select
> > Desktop->Preferences->Keyboard Shortcuts. Look for the "Take a
> > Screenshot" and "Take a Screenshot of a Window". Set them and use them.
> > In all cases you will have to save the png file somewhere, then load it
> > into Writer.
> > 
> > -- 
> > Graham Campbell <gc1111 at optonline.net>
> 
> To capture all the screen press PrintScreen and to capture only the
> active window press Alt PrintScreen.
> At least it works for me.

I'm using what I believe to be the default setup, with metacity, and
Cntl-Printscreen takes a screenshot of the active window and lets me
save it to a png. YMMV.

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