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Daniela wrote:
> I'm looking for a tool to record everything that can be seen on a given X 
> display. Ideally, it should have support for limiting recording to a single 
> window, but that's not strictly necessary. About four years ago I used 
> Camtasia on Windoze for this, and I need something that produces a similar 
> result, preferably a neat small command line tool.


ksnapshot does pretty much what you want. I tested it under fluxbox too, 
and it works fine there.

Lots to install if you don't want kde for anything else, though.


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