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Tue Oct 16 00:28:51 PDT 2007


Then select Graphics
Find Ksnapshot

Milton 

-----Original Message-----
From: E Frank Ball III [mailto:frankb at frankb.us] 
Sent: Friday, November 23, 2007 1:49 PM
To: General NBLUG chatter about anything Linux, answers to questions,etc.
Subject: Re: [NBLUG/talk] Using import from ImageMagick on Ubuntu

I use the grab function in "xv"


On Fri, Nov 23, 2007 at 11:43:21AM -0800, Steve Bursch wrote:
 > I'm using Ubuntu 7.10 with Gnome.  From time-to-time, I need to capture
some regions on the screen (usually error messages, or similar items).  I
want use the import program created by ImageMagick because it allows me to
define the region to be captured by dragging the mouse.
 >
 > I'm having problems, however, because import is a command-line program,
and the terminal screen often gets in the way of capturing the region of
interest.  The import program intercepts keystrokes, so it seems I'm
prohibited from shifting the focus from the terminal session to the window
containing the region I want to capture.  Clicking the mouse in the window
containing the region causes import to capture the whole screen...not what I
want.
 >
 > Does anyone have any tips on how to get around this problem?  I'm willing
to consider an entirely different program, if the import program is
inappropriate for the region capturing task.

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   E Frank Ball                frankb at frankb.us






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