Screen Capture tool?

[Marius Gedminas]

On Thu, Feb 10, 2005 at 10:00:54AM -0800, Jeff Anderson wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-02-10 at 18:36 +1100, David wrote:
> >On Wed, Feb 09, 2005 at 03:42:56PM -0800, Jeff Anderson wrote:
> >> Using the Alt+print screen key combination you can just capture the
> >> active window, rather than the full screen.  Maybe that helps...
> >> 
> >> Jeff
> >
> >umm.... excuse dumb question.. but...
> >
> >Alt+print screen in what context? If I simply do that in the gui desktop, 
> >nothing happens. 

Ubuntu's kernels are compiled with Magic SysRq support by default.
Alt+PrintScreen is Alt+SysRq, so the kernel eats that keypress.

You can rebind the screenshot key to Shift+PrintScreen if you like.

Marius Gedminas
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The reason computer chips are so small is that computers don't eat much.
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