[SOLVED] How to take Screenshots?

benali72 · 12-30-2010, 03:15 AM

How do I take screen snapshots? I'm using DSL 4.4.10.

I found a How To on using the "X Window Snapshot" tool (see http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/f/topic-3-28-20256-0.html).

It outputs to a *.xwd file format. When I try to use the convert command to convert this X Window dump to a PNG or JPG format file, I get a "command not found" response.

Any ideas? Thank you.

BTW, I also found that DSL does not have the scrot line command often used for taking Linux screenshots.

gasdim · 12-30-2010, 03:20 AM

Use ksnapshot which comes with KDE. Look in your software manager and you will find it. It saves the picture in .png!!!

benali72 · 12-30-2010, 04:44 AM

Thanks, @Gasdim. Your idea worked for me.

I also took snapshots with DSL's X Window Snapshot tool, then uploaded it to the website http://image.online-convert.com/convert-to-jpg, where they provide free translation of the *.XWD file output by the X Window Snapshot tool to a JPG file.

Your solution was better. Thanks.