Re: screen grab for screenshot

[Peter S Galbraith <GalbraithP@dfo-mpo.gc.ca>]

Thanks Michael.  The `import' command works great!
 
d1temp@telia.com wrote:

> On 15 May, 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.
> 
> Don't know about gimp, but I'd be surprised if it couldn't...
> 
> I've had varying success with xv, sometimes it works, sometimes it
> doesn't...
> 
> The imagemagick package includes the 'import' command. I have no trouble
> using it to capture emacs' menus:
> 
> sleep 5 ; import -window root foo.gif
> 
> puts the image in foo.gif. If you want an other format than gif, just
> use the suitable .extension