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Re: screenshot

Karl E. Jorgensen wrote:

> On Wed, Jun 20, 2007 at 02:56:47PM -0400, Frank McCormick wrote:
>> 
>> Anybody know of relatively simple software to take screenshots of the
>> dexktop or of windows of applications. Gnome-utils contains a screenshot
>> maker but its a 6 meg download and am 18 meg installation!!
> 
> There's always xwd in the xbase-clients package (which is probably
> installed already).
> 
> Cons:
> - It writes in .xwd format. Only. not png or even jpeg. xwd only. But
>   gimp and others should have no problem reading it.
> - Command-line only. No GUI.
> 

Not a real issue. You can always use

xwd | convert - screenshot.jpg


hth
raju
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