[NTLUG:Discuss] n00b question

[Kevin Hulse]

Quoting Steve Baker <sjbaker1 at airmail.net>:

> Tom Adelstein wrote:
> > You have several options. I use gimp and under "File" choose "Acquire".
> > You can then capture either the whole screen or a window.
>
> I use 'xv' - similar deal, gimp works well too but it takes longer to
> load.  There is also 'xwd' - I'll bet you could come up with half a
> dozen others.
>
> >>I'd like to do both the whole desktop as well as the active window.
> >>
> >>ctrl-print scrn and ctrl alt print scrn are not working.
> >>
> >>so.... what's the keystroke sequence?
>
> It's really illogical to reserve an entire key sequence for such an
> amazingly obscure function.  Think of all the thousands of things
> you do more frequently than a screen capture that would be more worthy
> of being bound to hot keys.

     There's nothing obscure about binding the print screen key to screen
capture. If anything, binding any other sort of functions to such a named
key would be remarkably confusing.

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