taking a screenshot?

|2ainman · 04-22-2004, 12:26 AM

hi all
Im trying to get a screenshot of my desktop. From other people's ss's, i've seen them use the 'import' command, i dont seem to have this command. I'm running SuSE 9 w/ fluxbox. Do I need any packages installed to use import? Are there any other alternatives to using import?

zefo · 04-22-2004, 12:30 AM

import is part of ImageMagick

320mb · 04-22-2004, 12:36 AM

I've got the gkrellshoot plug-in for gkrellm,
can take screenshots all I need.........

XavierP · 04-22-2004, 02:54 AM

Or just use Ksnapshot - it should be installed by default if you have KDE installed.

|2ainman · 04-22-2004, 04:02 AM

gkrellshoot needs imagemagick, but i think im going to use this plugin once i get imagemagick installed. TY everyone.

John5788 · 04-22-2004, 07:34 PM

scrot is a good one. its small and easy to use.

cetialphav · 04-23-2004, 12:07 AM

If you want to take screenshots without installing anything else, use this command line:

Code:

xwintoppm -root | ppmtojpeg > screen.jpg

This will put an image of your entire screen in the screen.jpg file.

This should work on pretty much any Linux box. Cryptic? Obscure? Yep. But you can put this stuff in a script if you want.

vectordrake · 04-24-2004, 04:40 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by John5788
scrot is a good one. its small and easy to use.

I second that (fort KDE users, you can bind the "printscreen" button to Ksnapshot, BTW).

Scrot rules!

mikshaw · 04-24-2004, 08:16 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by cetialphav
If you want to take screenshots without installing anything else, use this command line:

Code:

xwintoppm -root | ppmtojpeg > screen.jpg

This will put an image of your entire screen in the screen.jpg file.

This should work on pretty much any Linux box. Cryptic? Obscure? Yep. But you can put this stuff in a script if you want.

...assuming you have xwintoppm installed. xwd may be a more universal alternative.

cetialphav · 04-25-2004, 12:11 PM

Quote:

...assuming you have xwintoppm installed. xwd may be a more universal alternative.

You're right. xwintoppm is part of MagicPoint. xwd is more universal. That is what I meant to use, but I forgot the name and ran across xwintoppm instead. The xwd equivalent is:

Code:

xwd -root | xwdtopnm | pnmtojpeg > screen.jpg

Note that this does assume you have netpbm installed, but that should be a standard part of any common distribution.