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monicajae
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PostPosted: Thu Sep 27, 2012 12:19 am    Post subject: omg what is the simplest way to take a screenshot???? Reply with quote

anyone? i can't emerge shutter because i get udev and other blocks which are a pain in the ass to deal with. and it is like emergeing 5000 packages!!!!!!!!!!!!!


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PostPosted: Thu Sep 27, 2012 12:21 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Code:
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PostPosted: Thu Sep 27, 2012 12:49 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Simplest is probably using import command if you have imagemagick installed.
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PostPosted: Thu Sep 27, 2012 8:41 am    Post subject: ><))°€ Reply with quote

I use x11-apps/xwd as described here.

As I mention there, it's probably the first thing I managed to find that can do exactly what I want...
For the longest time I was puzzled as to how there can not be something that does what I want. —_—

Was incredibly satisfied with xwd... and still am...

Yes...
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PostPosted: Thu Oct 25, 2012 12:53 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

thanks for the replies...you all were very helpful, however i found that ksnapshot does the trick rather well :)

cheers!
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