From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Dec 7 12:46:07 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DF93716A4CE for ; Sun, 7 Dec 2003 12:46:07 -0800 (PST) Received: from sage.thought.org (dsl231-043-140.sea1.dsl.speakeasy.net [216.231.43.140]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E1C4543FDF for ; Sun, 7 Dec 2003 12:46:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kline@thought.org) Received: from thought.org (root@tao [10.0.0.247]) by sage.thought.org (8.12.9/8.11.4) with ESMTP id hB7KkiSw076133; Sun, 7 Dec 2003 12:46:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kline@thought.org) Received: (from kline@localhost) by thought.org (8.12.6/8.11.3) id hB7Kk2iu075370; Sun, 7 Dec 2003 12:46:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kline) Date: Sun, 7 Dec 2003 12:46:02 -0800 From: Gary Kline To: Bill Schoolcraft Message-ID: <20031207204602.GA141@tao.thought.org> References: <20031206202820.GA54315@tao.thought.org> <200312062142.33979.Danovitsch@Vitsch.net> <3FD2501A.5010200@daleco.biz> <20031207002437.A40672@bsd.billschoolcraft.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20031207002437.A40672@bsd.billschoolcraft.com> X-Organization: Thought Unlimited. Public service Unix since 1986. X-Of_Interest: Observing 17 years of service to the Unix community User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.5.1i cc: FreeBSD-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: which tool for a screenshot? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 07 Dec 2003 20:46:08 -0000 On Sun, Dec 07, 2003 at 12:27:40AM +0000, Bill Schoolcraft wrote: > At Sat, 6 Dec 2003 it looks like Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P. composed: > > > > > Looks like: > > > > 1. Click File menu > > 2. Click Acquire > > 3. Select "screen shot" and follow prompts. > > > > In another Unix OS I used to use the following command from a > xterm window and it would shoot the whole desktop and save it to > the file I named in the command line. > > > import -window root image.jpg > > I don't seem to have the "import" command on FreeBSD. > Looks like 'import' is part of ImageMagick: From man import:: AUTHORS John Cristy, ImageMagick Studio LLC, Glenn Randers-Pehrson, ImageMagick Studio LLC. Lives in the /usr/local/bin directory. If you do an % import test.jpeg and then position the "+" cursor and draw out the rectangle with the left mousebutton, import will capture a JPEG image of thar rectangle. Thanks for the reminder; I'm making notes this time... gary > -- > |<----------------------"Word-Wrap-At-72-Please"---------------------->| > Bill Schoolcraft > PO Box 210076 -o) > San Francisco CA 94121 /\ > "UNIX, A Way Of Life." _\_v > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org www.thought.org Public service Unix