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Re: Screen Capture



On Fri, Jun 30, 2000 at 01:06:03PM +0200, Andras BALI wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 28, 2000 at 03:23:12PM +0200, Michal Novak wrote:
> 
> > I need screen capture program for X, which capture complete screen as is.
> 
> The simpliest solution is to use "xwd" from the x11/xbase-clients
> package. Enter the following command in an xterm:
> 
>  $ xwd -root -out shot.xwd
> 
> The .xwd file you get can be converted into other formats using 
> "convert" from the graphics/imagemagick package:
> 
>  $ convert -quality 80 shot.xwd shot.jpg

If you're already using the imagemagick utilities, why not just use
"import" for screen and window shots?  Much faster and more direct than
xwd.

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