Screen capture

SDL Development
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I’m developing an SDL application and would like to include screen shots in
the documentation. Anyone know of a simple way to capture screens into jpeg
files with Red Hat Linux 7.2 (KDE)? MagiCapture, ImageMagick and such won’t
work because I can’t install them (RPM Hell). It seems they depend on other
libraries, including qt, and qt (if I read the error messages correctly)
depends on libraries that are part of qt in a chicken-and-egg sort of
nonsense. In other words, it appears that qt can’t be installed unless qt is
installed.

Thanks for any words of advice.

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Try the gimp. It comes standard with just about every GNU/Linux
distribution. Run the gimp with:

gimp

You can obtain a screenshot with:

File->Acquire->Screen Shot

nathanOn Sat, 3 Aug 2002, j_post wrote:

I’m developing an SDL application and would like to include screen shots in
the documentation. Anyone know of a simple way to capture screens into jpeg
files with Red Hat Linux 7.2 (KDE)? MagiCapture, ImageMagick and such won’t
work because I can’t install them (RPM Hell). It seems they depend on other
libraries, including qt, and qt (if I read the error messages correctly)
depends on libraries that are part of qt in a chicken-and-egg sort of
nonsense. In other words, it appears that qt can’t be installed unless qt is
installed.

Thanks for any words of advice.

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Umm, it says “Can’t open file as WXD file”. Since I lost my Gimp book, I’m at
a loss as to why it can’t open a file. :-(On Saturday 03 August 2002 04:41 pm, you wrote:

Try the gimp. It comes standard with just about every GNU/Linux
distribution. Run the gimp with:

gimp

You can obtain a screenshot with:

File->Acquire->Screen Shot

nathan

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j_post <j_post at pacbell.net> wrote:

Umm, it says “Can’t open file as WXD file”. Since I lost my Gimp book,
I’m at a loss as to why it can’t open a file. :frowning:

there is an option like “capture window decorations” - uncheck!

hope this helps …
clemens

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I’m developing an SDL application and would like to include screen shots in
the documentation. Anyone know of a simple way to capture screens into jpeg
files with Red Hat Linux 7.2 (KDE)? MagiCapture, ImageMagick and such won’t
work because I can’t install them (RPM Hell). It seems they depend on other
libraries, including qt, and qt (if I read the error messages correctly)
depends on libraries that are part of qt in a chicken-and-egg sort of
nonsense. In other words, it appears that qt can’t be installed unless qt is
installed.

Thanks for any words of advice.

imho the easiest solutinon is

alt+F2 → import -window root screen_shot.png
or
alt+F2 → import screen_shot.png (choose rectangle)

you will find screen_shot.png in your home dir

bye Krata

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imho the easiest solutinon is

alt+F2 → import -window root screen_shot.png
or
alt+F2 → import screen_shot.png (choose rectangle)

you will find screen_shot.png in your home dir

bye Krata

Nice! Thanks for the info.
Jeff