Screenshooter

[David M. Carney]

On Thu, 2004-10-14 at 13:42 -0400, Chris wrote:
> On Thu, 2004-10-14 at 12:00 -0400, David M. Carney wrote:
> > Is there an undocumented way to take a screenshot of a selected area of
> > the screen, instead of either the whole screen or active window?
> > 
> > If not, is there another screenshooter program that will do this?
> > 
> > David
> 
> Several that I know of:
> 
> gnome-panel-screenshot - Not sure how to actually use that though.  I
> believe it only does the full screen.
> 
> gimp - Open The Gimp then do "File->Acquire->Screen shot".  This is by
> far the best method as you have lots of file types you can save as.
> Plus it does whole screen or per window.
> 
> ksnapshot - Also useful if you don't mind using a KDE app.  Does per
> window and delayed, etc. 
> 
> -- 
> // Chris
> 
> 

Thanks to all who replied.

I didn't realize the Gimp would do screenshots, but I really was looking
for an app that would let me do a user defined region, as well as an
active window or whole screen.

I know at one time Gkrellm had a screenshooter plugin that would let one
do any of these, but I really didn't want to run Gkrellm just to have
that feature.

Of those listed in Chris' reply, only ksnapshot will let me do what I'm
looking for. 

So I guess that's what I'll use for now, unless someone knows of a
better app that will do it.

David

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