Comments on: Linux: Quick and Dirty Way to Take Screenshots http://www.terminally-incoherent.com/blog/2007/09/26/linux-quick-and-dirty-way-to-take-screenshots/ Utterly random, incoherent and disjointed rants and ramblings... Thu, 20 Nov 2008 15:29:47 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.5 by: jbj http://www.terminally-incoherent.com/blog/2007/09/26/linux-quick-and-dirty-way-to-take-screenshots/#comment-6392 Wed, 03 Oct 2007 09:53:42 +0000 http://www.terminally-incoherent.com/blog/2007/09/26/linux-quick-and-dirty-way-to-take-screenshots/#comment-6392 Interesting article! One good thing to do should be mapping a key to this command. I should try tonight ;) Thanks for sharing. Interesting article! One good thing to do should be mapping a key to this command. I should try tonight )
Thanks for sharing.

]]> by: Jake http://www.terminally-incoherent.com/blog/2007/09/26/linux-quick-and-dirty-way-to-take-screenshots/#comment-6318 Thu, 27 Sep 2007 01:55:53 +0000 http://www.terminally-incoherent.com/blog/2007/09/26/linux-quick-and-dirty-way-to-take-screenshots/#comment-6318 Wow, this will be great for when I'm stuck on GNOME or the like. I've always just opened up the GIMP due to the lack of a ksnapshot like utility. Thanks! Wow, this will be great for when I’m stuck on GNOME or the like. I’ve always just opened up the GIMP due to the lack of a ksnapshot like utility. Thanks!

]]> by: jambarama http://www.terminally-incoherent.com/blog/2007/09/26/linux-quick-and-dirty-way-to-take-screenshots/#comment-6317 Wed, 26 Sep 2007 22:33:37 +0000 http://www.terminally-incoherent.com/blog/2007/09/26/linux-quick-and-dirty-way-to-take-screenshots/#comment-6317 Nice, I've looked all over for something like this. Terrific Nice, I’ve looked all over for something like this. Terrific

]]> by: Luke Maciak http://www.terminally-incoherent.com/blog/2007/09/26/linux-quick-and-dirty-way-to-take-screenshots/#comment-6316 Wed, 26 Sep 2007 19:00:04 +0000 http://www.terminally-incoherent.com/blog/2007/09/26/linux-quick-and-dirty-way-to-take-screenshots/#comment-6316 Oh, nice! I'll keep that in mind for the future. :) Oh, nice! I’ll keep that in mind for the future. )

]]> by: Craig Betts http://www.terminally-incoherent.com/blog/2007/09/26/linux-quick-and-dirty-way-to-take-screenshots/#comment-6315 Wed, 26 Sep 2007 18:28:05 +0000 http://www.terminally-incoherent.com/blog/2007/09/26/linux-quick-and-dirty-way-to-take-screenshots/#comment-6315 FLIPPIN AWESOME! Solaris is now including the import command (/usr/sfw/bin/import) which works great! But . . . if you are working on antique systems like me, you might not have this command at your disposal. X11 provides a method of doing this: <pre lang="java">xwd -root -out screenshot.x</pre> However, this file is in Xbitmap format, but you can easily move it to another system and use imagemagik to convert it to the desired format: <pre lang="java">convert screenshot.x screenshot.jpg</pre> FLIPPIN AWESOME!

Solaris is now including the import command (/usr/sfw/bin/import) which works great!

But . . . if you are working on antique systems like me, you might not have this command at your disposal. X11 provides a method of doing this:

xwd -root -out screenshot.x

However, this file is in Xbitmap format, but you can easily move it to another system and use imagemagik to convert it to the desired format:

convert screenshot.x screenshot.jpg
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