Comments on: Linux: Quick and Dirty Way to Take Screenshots

By: cristian2006

cristian2006 — Thu, 21 Jun 2012 09:13:11 +0000

another way is : Alt+SysRq.

By: JuEeHa

JuEeHa — Sun, 25 Dec 2011 19:16:24 +0000

I actually know this because I sometimes forgot to add #/usr/bin/python to python scripts that used import and then ran it like ./python-script and got strange cursor and then it saved something like system*.ps. Later I actually have used only import to save screenshots.

By: jbj

jbj — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 09:53:42 +0000

Interesting article! One good thing to do should be mapping a key to this command. I should try tonight ;)
Thanks for sharing.

By: Jake

Jake — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 01:55:53 +0000

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

jambarama — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 22:33:37 +0000

Nice, I’ve looked all over for something like this. Terrific

By: Luke Maciak

Luke Maciak — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 19:00:04 +0000

Oh, nice! I’ll keep that in mind for the future. :)

By: Craig Betts

Craig Betts — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 18:28:05 +0000

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