[NTLUG:Discuss] n00b question

[Lenrek Xunil]

Gimp works for me.  If you do a lot of screenshots you can have it
open in its own desktop.  The great thing about Gimp is that you can
easily resize the screent shot to the size that you went from the
print window.


On Mon, 21 Feb 2005 08:07:37 -0600, Kevin Hulse <jedi at mishnet.org> wrote:
> 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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