Capturing Screenshots in Ubuntu

[Alfred Vahau]

Alfred Vahau wrote:

> Michael R. Head wrote:
>
>>On Tue, 2005-11-08 at 11:36 +1000, Alfred Vahau wrote:
>>  
>>
>>>john levin wrote:
>>>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.
>>>    
>>>
>>
>>The GIMP is actually quite good for this sort of thing, but... Just
>>press Alt-Printscreen.
>>
>>mike
>>
>>  
>>
>>>Alfred
>>>    
>>>
> I find Alt-Printscreen does not reproduce the image of screen faithfully.
> Looks like I will have to use GIMP to produce the cropping effects 
> prior to inserting into OpenOffice documents.
>
> But I shouldn't have to use GIMP to refine the size via crop. After 
> inserting into an OO document,
> I should be able to click on the image which automatically loads a 
> picture editor.
> The image will have handles and as I choose the crop option and drag 
> the handles,
> the desired image should result. This can be done without having to 
> use a full image editor.
>
> Perhaps the feature is there in Ubuntu. I will need to explore further.
>
> Alfred,
>
>
>
Inserting the screenshot into OO Writer for instance invoked the picture 
editor described above.
Unfortunately the crop option was not available but this is not a Ubuntu 
issue.
GIMP did the final touches.

Alfred,

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