Index->Capturing Screen Shots Capturing Screen Shots Overview and Goals At the completion of this lab, you will be able to... capture a screen shot of a window. save a screen shot to disk. print a screen shot. The following utilities are used in this lab: ksnapshot, gimp(1) GIMP GIMP is the GNU Image Manipulate Program. If you've ever used Adobe Photoshop, GIMP provides similar functionality. In this lab, you'll only learn how to capture, save, and print screen shots. Type "gimp" at the command line to start the GIMP. Choose "File---Acquire---Screen Shot" from the menus. If you want to capture an individual window, choose the "Single Window" option. The "With Decorations" option determines if you want to capture the border and title around a window (probably a good idea). If you want to capture the entire screen, choose the "Whole Screen" option. The "after X Seconds Delay" input box determines how long GIMP will wait before capturing a window. If necessary, set this to 2-3 seconds to give yourself time to bring a window to the foreground. Click "OK", and the mouse cursor should turn into a cross. There might be a delay if you entered a number in the "after X Seconds Delay" box. Click the cross in the window you want to capture, and GIMP will bring up an image of that window. Right click in the GIMP image and choose "File---Save As" to save your image to disk. Right click again and choose "File---Print" to print your image. ksnapshot To start ksnapshot select the following Start->Graphics->KSnapshot. It is a much smaller program than GIMP and hence it is faster to load. GIMP is a very powerful image manipulation program with tons of functionalities. KSnapshot is specially designed for one purpose only: take screen shots. Once loaded, ksnapshot offers three buttons: Grab, Print, and Save. By default it will take a snapshow of the whole desktop. If the Save button is pressed, the snapshot will be saved in a .PNG image. The procedure for taking screen shots with KSnapshot is very similar to that of using GIMP as described above. Top