From owner-freebsd-newbies Fri May 31 15: 0:39 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from phoenix.welearn.com.au (phoenix.welearn.com.au [139.130.44.81]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3357837B400 for ; Fri, 31 May 2002 15:00:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from sue@localhost) by phoenix.welearn.com.au (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g4VM0Ds59484; Sat, 1 Jun 2002 08:00:13 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from sue) Date: Sat, 1 Jun 2002 08:00:12 +1000 From: Sue Blake To: Mario Schmidt Cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Screenshot Message-ID: <20020601080012.O5356@welearn.com.au> Mail-Followup-To: Sue Blake , Mario Schmidt , freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG References: <1022880554.7654.5.camel@client1.freebsd.linux-site.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <1022880554.7654.5.camel@client1.freebsd.linux-site.net>; from mario@freebsd.linux-site.net on Sat, Jun 01, 2002 at 12:29:03AM +0300 Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sat, Jun 01, 2002 at 12:29:03AM +0300, Mario Schmidt wrote: > > > Simple question: > > How can i take a screenshot in X ? is there a tool available or do i > just find the key? A hurried answer: I use xwd (X window dump) which I _think_ comes with X but maybe it was something I installed?? Try 'which xwd' to see if you have it. It describes itself as Xwd is an X Window System window dumping utility. Xwd allows X users to store window images in a specially for- matted dump file. This file can then be read by various other X utilities for redisplay, printing, editing, for- matting, archiving, image processing, etc. The target window is selected by clicking the pointer in the desired window. The keyboard bell is rung once at the beginning of the dump and twice when the dump is completed. and X window UNdump... Xwud is an X Window System image undumping utility. Xwud allows X users to display in a window an image saved in a specially formatted dump file, such as produced by xwd(1). Check their man pages for simple instructions. Normally I get the file produced by xwd and pull it into something like xpaint to convert to gif format, which is much smaller. There are other tools you can install from the ports (I think that xv is a popular candidate) but I've never needed anything bulkier than xwd. -- Regards, -*Sue*- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message