Screen Capture (was: Re: A different approach)

[Kurt Wall]

Scribbling feverishly on April 23, Joe Klemmer managed to emit:
> 
> 	Slightly related to this topic (insofar as I want to show 
> something to Rich related to this issue) but I forgot how to do a screen 
> capture.  Can some kind soul remind me how to either dump the screen to a 
> file or better yet just grab a part of the screen?

$ xwd -root > grab.xwd
$ convert grab.xwd grab.mumble

Or, to be really concise:

$ xwd -root | convert - grab.mumble

Replace "mumble" with the image format you prefer.

Kurt
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