Screenshots: will xwd do?
 

Hi:

I have seen that many of you send screenshots. I want to be able to do this too. I have a linux utility called xwd, and thought that perhaps it could be used for that purpose. The manual is not long but a little technical for my stage of knowledge.

What I want to capture is some region of the desktop or whatever windows are open above it. So, my question: Will xwd serve this purpose? Kind regards.

yes, but you'll need to convert the image to gix / jpg / png before uploading it:

xwd -file blah.xwd
convert blah.xwd blah.png

Note, this is *not* a question about linuxquestions.org so should not have been posted in this forum. Lunux - Newbie is probably a better place in future.

// moved.

--jeremy

I like scrot and ksnapshot.

Hi again and thanks.

@acid_kewpie:

I ran
$ xwd -out my_file
and, as the manual says, click on one corner, slided the mouse and clicked on the other corner. An hour has elapsed but my_file is nowhere on the hard disk. It is obvious I did not quite get it. But every option except -out is unimportant in my case, I think. So what did I do wrong?

@MTK358:

I do not have but I do have ksnapshot. I will try this one too.

An hour? it's instant. and will be right in the directory you are running it from.

Thanks.

why not push the "print screen" button on the keyboard
or
"grab screen" in Gimp

Well, it's a curious thing this: in old US keyboards, there are three keys in a row, like this:
Under MS-DOS, and in my experience, Pause/Break makes the machine to freeze, Scroll Lock does nothing and Print Scrn, I remember needed a special program to dump CRT to PRN. SysRq was a mistery.

As to Linux, I have just, naively perhaps, pressed Print Scrn and nothing happened. I suppose a program is also required.

Can you give me a reason to explain why so many people seems nowadays interested in the solar system planets and few in the stars? It's true: the most powerful telescope won't enlarge the size of a star whereas the planets can now be seen with wealth of details.

However, the sheer consideration of the magnitudes (distances, times, temperatures, sizes) and facts associated with the stars, makes man necessarily interrogate about the ultimate misteries of the universe.

Excuse me. I've been awaken during 48hs, and this turns me into a philosopher. Thanks for your replay.

"print screen" has always worked for me "out of the box"
in gnome and KDE on
fedora 4 to 11
opensuse 11.3
Arch
CentOS 5.3 to 5.6
SL 6.0 and 6.1

Interesting. I have Suse, don't remember the version. May be I install it and try, Thanks John VV.