im looking for a program that can capture the X screen so I can create an image of the screen saved into a file, does anyone know how to do this ?

i use xwd, but if you'd searched this site or google, you'd have instantly found out about a whole heap of them, such as gimp and others.

I found xwd that captures and xwud which shows.

I also found ImageMagick which converts, and The GIMP which manipulates and does a load of other good stuff....

thanks dude !! (I didn't know these were built-ins (xwd/xwud)).

btw.....any chance of a built-in that converts or does any other stuff without the need of any of the latter ?
as you probably have figured from my sig I prefer minimalistic, which would also be true for libraries and additional programs, I do prefer using internal commands which I already have (but don't know about).

i use imagemagicks "convert" program to go from xwd's output format to whatever i want.