Re: Printing screen images from gnome?

[a mole <mole pasdex com au>]

On Fri, 27 Aug 1999, Stan Brown wrote:

> >
> >Stan:
> >> 
> >>         Any sugestions as to how to print screen images from a Gnome desktop?
> >
> >I use the GIMP....it should be on your system. Start it up and look
> >under the "xtns" (extensions) menu item.
> >
> 
> 	Really, what an interesting thought. I would never have thought of
> 	using thta tool.
> 
> 	What I was actually lookig for thouhg was something that could be
> 	scripted. so I could add a "print screen" button.
> 

I use 'import' from the ImageMagick package to do this.  It's a command
line thing so you should be able to script it.

	import -window root somefile.ps

Gives me a snapshot of the whole screen into a postscript file I can dump
to printer. Import also understands a bunch of other formats if you want
to play with it.

M.