Capturing Screenshots in Ubuntu

Alfred Vahau Alf.Vahau at upng.ac.pg
Tue Nov 8 01:36:14 UTC 2005


john levin wrote:

> Alfred Vahau wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>> What is the Ubuntu way of capturing screenshots?
>> I need to capture screenshots for insertion in Impress presentation 
>> of OpenOffice.
>>
> There's a menu entry, under System > Take Screenshot...
>
> (Don't know why there's the dots after Screenshot. Bug?)
>
> John
>
Thanks John. Works wonderfully. Now I'll just need to figure out how to 
crop the needed screenshot from the rest.
Is there a tool that is needed to do this? I'd rather avoid the use of 
GIMP at this stage.

Alfred








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