[NTLUG:Discuss] attn: newbies!

[Steve Baker]

micky john wrote:
> 
> Thanks for the screen shots, I'll set up the thumbnails accordingly.
> 
> Lee, Your shots were a little fuzzy; I couldn't make out the letters on the
> shot.  Could you get another one thats a little better quality?  If not, no
> prob, we already have enough shots from various places.
> 
> How do you take a screen shot?  Is it with shift^(print screen) keystrokes?

I use 'xv' (XView) - start 'xv', right click to bring up the menu, click on 'Grab',
click the check box that says "Hide XV windows" (so the XV windows don't themselves
appear in the screen shot) - then EITHER click on the window that you want a picture of
OR click on the desktop background somewhere to take a picture of the entire screen.

Now it gets a little confusing because you have an XV window containing a picture of
your desktop covering up the real desktop!

Go to the window labelled "xv controls" again and click "Save"...you can save in
a gazillion different formats.

As an alternative, you could use GIMP (Under the Files/Acquire/Screenshot menu,
select "Whole screen"...) but then you get the GIMP window in the picture you took.

You could also use the 'import' program from the ImageMagick suite, or 'xgrabsc'...
there are lots of others - but those all suffer from the problem that you have to
type their name - and that then appears on the screen you were trying to save.
You can get around that in several devious ways (eg typing:

  sleep 10 ; xgrabsc {parameters}

...then quickly minimising the Xterm window before the ten seconds elapse. :-)

You could also telnet in from another machine, set the DISPLAY environment variable to
:0.0 and then run one of the snapshot tools.

However, the XV method seems most flexible to me.

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