Hi Folks,

I use Infranview in windows a lot for taking screenshots in the following way. Let' say I want to take a screenshot for later.

Windows XP with Infranview
1. Hit print screen key to put the screen to memory.
2. Click the Infranview shortcut. Takes <1 sec to load.
3. Ctrl+V. Draw a box around what I want. Ctrl+Y (crop), Ctrl+S (and give a name).
It's quick and fast and its the normal way I take areas of screenshots.

Under Ubuntu 7.10, I try to use the Gimp.
1. Hit print screen key.
2. asks me to save to file instead. Hit save (default name whatever).
3. Load the Gimp. (1 sec)
4. Ctrl+N and hit return(New canvas). Ctrl+O (open the scrshot file).
5. Shift+C (crop), left click on this to confirm the crop (is there a short key?).
6. Ctrl-S (save)

Any Gimp experts know of a faster way to take a scrshot and paste directly into Gimp and crop? instead of having to save a file first when hitting print screen is an extra step? Trying to avoid step 2.
After doing this a few times it's just as fast as windows. But just wondered what do other folk do? After all, we do this so many times.

In Kde, go to Control Center - File Associations. Select the type of file the screenshot is saved as (example: png). Move Gimp to the top on the list on the right. If it isn't listed, add it (General tab).

Then click on the Embedding tab, select 'Show file in embedded viewer' in the Left-click Action box.

When the file is saved, you should only need to left-click on it to open it in the Gimp.

I don't know how it's done in Gnome, but it should be something similar.

tmpfile=~/tmp/shot_$(date +%Y%m%H%M%S).png; import -silent -window root $tmpfile; gimp $tmpfile

Bind this to any key (xbindkeys or any WM will do) or just type in console. See import and gimp manpages for more options (image format, window to capture, gimp starting interfaces etc).

Wow! Thanks Guys - I'll try that and let you know how I get on.

I use "import" and drag the area to be shot and that's it.

import myshot.png and after that, just drag the mouse and release.

(Works also in Gimp -> aquire -> screenshot, select region to grab)

With xwd, a cross will appear, select the window you want to take a screenshot of
xwud will display the image
The file can also be opened by gimp (I guess)

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In KDE there is of course always KSnapshot, where you can select the area you want to use for a screen shot and then save it with the click of a mouse or the hit of ENTER - it's easy and works very well! If you give the first screen shot a specific name with number, then all others will be saved with the same name but successive numbers, no need to bother with giving names. Just hit save and it's done.