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actually it should. at least it does for me in kde on rh 7.3. i think you need to check for a couple of things first. sheck your shortcut keys and see if you have key combos that map to screenshots. i've got print screen mapped to full desktop screenshot and alt+printscreen mapped to windowed screenshots. this doesn't work for every app though. i know the alt+printscreen doesn't work for the gimp. but it does work for kpaint. you do an alt+printscreen on let's say your konqeror window. open up kpaint and then do Edit > Past Image. a new kpaint window will open up with your konqueror screenshot. save it if you wish or do some basic editing and save it. printscreen itself doesn't work that well, from my experience though. using the hotkeys for a full desktop screenshot and pasting into kpaint causes my window decs to disappear until next login, so imo, that's buggy. but alt+printscreen works fine.
but not withstanding, i think i use either ksnapshot or the shoot plugin from gkrellm the most.
I like to be lazy...and annoyingly organized. "snap 60" takes a snapshot and compresses it at 60% quality, then saves it in a specified directory with the current date as the filename:
Code:
YEAR=`date +%y`
MONTH=`date +%m`
DAY=`date +%d`
#HOUR=`date +%H`
#MINUTE=`date +%M`
FILENAME="${HOME}/image/snap/${YEAR}linflux_${MONTH}${DAY}.png"
if [ ! $1 ]; then
echo "no compression specified (1-100)"
else
import -pause 2 -window root -quality $1 ${FILENAME}
if [ -r ${FILENAME} ]; then
echo "image saved to ${FILENAME}"
else
echo "could not save ${FILENAME}"
fi
fi
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