[NBLUG/talk] "Capture Applications on screen in X"

[Ron Wickersham]

On Tue, 9 Sep 2003, ME wrote:

> Someone asked at this last meeting how to get stuff scraped of the screen
> as images with the GIMP.

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> For Linux, there are commands you can install to permit "screen scraping"
>
> Check out "xwpick" for one. It permits you to run it with a file as an arg
> (not all image formats are supported) and then any app you "click on" (one
> time) will be copied as an image to the file you specified.
>
> There are other tools to do stuff like this. I can't remember their names
> right now though..
>
> -ME

"xv" does a great job.

-ron