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Re: How to get a screenshot?



In article <[🔎] Pine.SUN.3.96.980911135239.11742B-100000@kira>,
Eric House <fixin@peak.org> wrote:
>I want to take a screenshot of a window running under X and eventually
>to convert it to a .gif file.
>
>I assume the Gimp can handle the conversion.  But how does one get a
>screenshot under [Debian] Linux?  Is there anything comparable to
>Snapshot (on Solaris), for example?  

The "xv" program has a "grab" button with which you can grab the
content of another window.

Mike.
-- 
  "Seed me, Seymour"
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