This is probably another very easy question for a lot of people, but I tried print scrn and it didn't work (like in windows). How in Linux do I take a screen-shot?

TIA

Scott

from a console you can do import -window root filename.png . in fluxbox i use the keys file to bind this to something.

In Red Hat 9 I found a pre-installed application that takes screenshots for you.
-Place your mouse on a empty spot on the taskbar
-Right click your mouse and move your mouse pointer over the selection that says "Add Panel"
-Move your mouse over to the selection that says "Button"
-Select the choice that says "Screenshot" and either left click to take a screenshot or right click and it goes to your taskbar.

Now whenever you want a screenshot just click on the little camera icon in the taskbar and it will ask you to name it and where to save it.

Pretty cool. :P

rberry88

If you are running KDE try Ksnapshot or Gnome there is a little screenshot icon on the start menu.

In RedHat 9.0 the key combo alt PrintScrn will work too. It takes a screen shot of only the selected app, so for the whole screen you need to just hit PrintScrn

Thank you very much, that's it! Never thought to look there.

Scott

by the way, if you have GIMP, it comes with a neat screenshot tool...

(Toolbox Main Menu) > File > Acquire > Screenshot

http://www.gimp.org/

i found this thread on google and i still cant find out how to take a screenshot, it seems as my os (gentoo) doesnt have the app called "import" i tried to emerge it but it cant find it. where do i get it? its hard to google that app, :P thanks in advance

Import is part of the ImageMagick package.

i do (use kde) ctrl + print. then right mouse click and paste?

If I recall correctly, doing something like "$import image.jpg" from the command line will allow you to specify a region to capture with your mouse, rather than just grabbing the whole screen...

thank you =)

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