Fwd: [Xastir] Timing Sliders

[Jeremy Utley]

Oops, forgot to edit the to field - sorry JimR!

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From: Jeremy Utley <jerutley at gmail.com>
Date: Oct 24, 2006 5:44 PM
Subject: Re: [Xastir] Timing Sliders
To: JimR <kd1yv at arrl.net>


On 10/24/06, JimR <kd1yv at arrl.net> wrote:

> Curt, apparently Suse implemented the CTRL-PrtScr and ALT-PrtScr for
> screen captures.  CTRL-PrtScr captures the whole screen to the paste
> buffer, while ALT-PrtScr captures only the active window or sub-window.
> You can then paste these into your favorite program, such as OO Writer,
> Gimp, or probably even some mail clients.

There's also the venerable "xwd" program, which is a part of X-Windows:

xwd -root -out screenshot.xwd

Then to make it into a little better format, use ImageMagick's
"convert" program:

convert screenshot.xwd screenshot.png

Make sure you delete the .xwd file, as it gets huge (uncompressed
bitmap type file).  One I just made to test this out is almost 8MB on
my 1600x1200x24bpp display, which shrinks down to just under 500K
after I convert to png format.

Jeremy, NW7JU