!!!!DUMB NEWBIE QUESTION ALERT!!!!
 

Dumb newbie question

I'm using Knoppix 3.9 to gather information about Linux which I'm doing as a project for a course that I am doing.

Is there a way I can take a screen dump and then paste it into Open Office?

I'm looking for something similar to the windows equivalent of pressing "Print Screen" and then pasting it in to a Word document.

I have already tried the above method within knoppix (substituting Word with Open Office of course), but to no avail.

can anyone help?

:Pengy:

Knapshot maybe? Does it save the data in the clipboard, or not? I don't know. But that's the way I get my screenshots.

thanks, I'll give it a try!

If it does'nt work for me, I'm sure I'll end up posting this again!

I NEED TO LEARRRN:study:

ImageMagick - use the "import" command to create a screenshot, then import the file into OO

why doesn't the "print screen" button work? Is it that hard to configure?

Because there's a dozen different pieces of software that you might want the screen captured by, and you might want it saved in a particular format or in a particular place.

It's easy enough to configure it so that the print screen button does work, if that's what you want.

The Gimp also has an acquire screenshot feature.