screenshot of my desktop
 

Is there any chance of having a sell command that will take a screenshot of my desktop.

thanks.

Well, I'm using slackware and Kde, and there is a program called KSnapshot, to do just that.

try this in the shell:

"Import filename.jpg"

use the mouse to select a window or the entire screen. The file: filename.jpg is saved in the folder you are currently in.

KC

That's if you've got ImageMagick but you should. And if you don't want to mess with the mouse, you can specify the window, such as with 'import -window root foo'. Check out the man page for the approximately 6 trillion options. Cool program (or suite of them). You can also, of course, create a script specifying the default directory to save to, a timestamped filename, any number of other options, and invoke it with a word. Then bind it to a key with your window manager. Hell of a lot more flexible and less interactive than KSnapshot.

(I'm in KDE at the moment, and missing my icewm script.) ;)