Re: Screenshots alternatives (was: ImageMagic: Problem with display's grab function)
On Tue, Apr 26, 2005 at 01:17:07PM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote:
> On Tue, 26 Apr 2005, Jan T. Kim wrote:
>
> >>I have a problem with the display program of imagemagick 6.0.6.2-2.2:
> >>I tried to grab a snapshot of a window by using File -> Open... and
> >>clicking the "Grab" button in the file selector, but instead of
> >>proceeding with the "Enter any delay in seconds" dialog, I get a
> >>"unable to open image '<currentworkdir>/x:': No such file or directory:"
> >>notice.
> >Unfortunately, the problem persists, even after another update yesterday.
> So at first I would check the bug tracking system
>
> http://bugs.debian.org/imagemagick
>
> whether this is a known bug.
It is indeed, see
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=293448
> >I therefore wonder which programs others use for getting screenshots.
> Use Gimp once you reported the bug.
Ok, that's a possibility, thanks... I'd prefer something simpler, though.
The xwd program, recommended by Mark Janssen, sounds a bit more like the
thing I look for.
> PS: What is the reason for posting this kind of questions on debian-laptop.
> I would call debian-user as the right list.
The perhaps somewhat silly reasons is that (1) I am subscribed to this
mailing list but not to debian-user and (2) I encountered this problem
on my laptop while I seem to remeber that grabbing worked for me on the
desktop which I had until recently.
Best regards, Jan
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