Linux Window Screen Capture

[Ynog]

Does anyone know of anyone good free capture programs that can be used
to capture windows on a linux box.

If I am not describing myself well enough, basically looking for something
that can capture an individual window when doing a screen shot.

Thanks ahead of time.

 

[VBboy]

Could there be a special key combination, like Alt+PrintScreen on Windows?

 

[Ynog]

Actually i was looking for single window screenshots, but I think the GIMP can do what I am looking for.

Thanks anyway

 

[Barnaby W. Füi]

Nope, "built in" things like print screen tend to not exist in unix land, some programs you can use to take screenshots are:

scrot - nice, small, handy command line utility, my fave. Just run "scrot" and it dumps a dated png in the current directory.
the gimp - file->acquire->screenshot
import -window root file.jpg - I believe the "import" utility is part of image magick, I don't really remember.
ksnapshot - qt (kde) gui program which has a preview thumbnail
some gnome 1 dockapp can take screen shots, not sure what the name of it is.

Hmm, just re-read your question, for a program that takes a screenshot of just a single window, the gimp and ksnapshot both do that.

 

[Nothinman]

If you have the gimp installed it can do that. If you use import (from the ImageMagik tools IIRC) it should change the cursor to a + and whatever window you click on will get captured.

 

[VBboy]

BingBongWongFooey,

Is that real code in your sig? I really hope you don't write programs that look like that

 

[Armitage]

ksnapshot is nice ... I've used it alot.

 

[Barnaby W. Füi]

Originally posted by: VBboy
BingBongWongFooey,

Is that real code in your sig? I really hope you don't write programs that look like that

It was my attempt to make the most obfuscated python code possible. It's not really very obfuscated though. Replace the semicolons with newlines and it's not too bad at all. :-/

I'm taking a wild guess that you don't have a python interpreter around () - here's what it outputs:

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(it's randomized, different each time ) (hit quote to see it properly)

 

[GhettoFob]

Originally posted by: BingBongWongFooey

Originally posted by: VBboy
BingBongWongFooey,

Is that real code in your sig? I really hope you don't write programs that look like that

It was my attempt to make the most obfuscated python code possible. It's not really very obfuscated though. Replace the semicolons with newlines and it's not too bad at all. :-/

I'm taking a wild guess that you don't have a python interpreter around () - here's what it outputs:

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(it's randomized, different each time ) (hit quote to see it properly)

that's purdy