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Re: screen grab for screenshot



you tried the 'import' command? do man import


On Mon, May 15, 2000 at 01:21:14PM -0400, Peter S Galbraith wrote:

> 
> How does one grab an image of the root window (containing many
> window) while the mouse is in the process of selecting in a menu?
> 
> - Using ImageMagick's display's grab function, I enter a time
>   delay and select a menu in Emacs.  I get the error:
> 
>    display: Unable to grab the mouse.
> 
>   (I think I'd get only the Emacs window if it worked anyway)
> 
> - Using xv's grab function, I enter a delay and select a menu in
>   Emacs.  I get an image of the Emacs window without even the
>   menu I'll pulling down.
> 
> Can gimp do this? (It's not installed yet, but that's easy to
> remedy)
> 
> Thanks,
> -- 
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