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Screenshots alternatives (was: ImageMagic: Problem with display's grab function)



On Tue, Apr 12, 2005 at 03:16:11PM +0100, 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.
> 
> It looks to me as though something goes wrong in the display program
> internally, it appears to look for a file called "x:" where the string
> "x:" is really meant to indicate that the image is to be grabbed rather
> than loaded from a file.
> 
> I updated all packages just today, but the problem remains.

Unfortunately, the problem persists, even after another update yesterday.

I therefore wonder which programs others use for getting screenshots.
Any comments?

Greetings & thanks in advance, Jan
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