Re: Is there a screencapture utility?

[Oliver Lupton <oliverlupton@gmail.com>]

Ron Johnson wrote:

> On Thu, 2005-09-15 at 00:16 +0000, bmward@inet.net.nz wrote:
>  
>
> > I'm running sarge/GNOME. I'd like an ability to capture portions of a screen
> > (part of a window preferably). Is there something which will do that?
> >
> > I am aware of the GNOME applet (but that doesn't seem to capture a window) and
> > of GIMP (which doesn't completely meet my needs either).
> >
> > What bothers me is that I thought I had that ability in the woody installation
> > which I 'upgraded'  to sarge, getting GNOME 2.x!
> >    
>
> GNOME 2.8 has "Take Screenshot..." right on the drop-down "Foot"
> menu.
>
> After you've taken the screenshot, edit it GIMP to pull out only
> the window you want.
>
> Now, a "windowshot" utility would be so useful...
>
>  
As Kent West said, use imagemagick's 'import', it'll grab either a 
random selection (click and drag a selection box), the whole screen 
(import -window root outfile.jpg), or a single window (focus the window 
after you run import)

Oliver