[linux-audio-user] OT: Screen capture application...

[Steve Harris]

On Sun, Sep 12, 2004 at 10:37:04AM -0500, Jan Depner wrote:
> You can use Ksnapshot.  If you need to capture pull down menus you can
> use xwd in a script with a sleep delay as in:
> 
> sleep 5
> xwd -root -out output_file.xwd
> convert output_file.xwd output_file.png
> rm fred.xwd
> 
> Start the script then pull down your menu and wait 5 seconds.  If you
> want to capture a specific window instead of the entire screen you can
> use -name windowname or -id windowid instead of -root.  The "convert"
> command is part of ImageMagick.  If you don't have that you can use
> something else to convert it (don't ask me what, I have ImageMagick ;-)

In fedora at least you can do Alt+PrntScrn, or just PrntScrn if you
want the whole desktop.

- Steve