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Topic: Screen Capture, Tools --> X Window Screenshot

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Posted: Nov. 21 2003,23:45

On the 'Tools' menu, I find 'X Window Screenshot' (or snapshot, I forget)... When I run it, the cursor becomes a crosshair and I can click the background to get a screen dump. I'd like to capture a couple screens but can't seem to make it happen.

My question is... How do I save this image? If it's automatic, where do I find them?

:cool:

SideWynder

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Posted: Nov. 22 2003,18:50

That menu option does not actually save them. Instead it pipes the output of the captured screen into the input of the display screen program. If you look at the commands that menu selection is executing you will see:
xwd | xwud
What you get is a displayed image of the screen that was captured. When you click on it, it closes and is gone.
If you want to play with these commands, try the following for a shell command prompt:
xwd -out myscreen.xwd
That will capture the screen and save it to the named file myscreen.xwd. Now to view the saved screen you will need to:
xwud -in myscreen.xwd

To see all the options type:
xwd --help and xwud --help

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Posted: Nov. 24 2003,22:16

Thanks!

8) SW

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Posted: Nov. 24 2003,23:11

You can also us Xpaint to take a screenshot, it then could be saved in the format of your choice.

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