screenshot in linux?

[edwardtanguay]

How can I make a screenshot in Linux? In windows you can type ALT-Print which puts the current window in the scrap which you can insert into a graphic program and save as a .jpg. How can you do this with Linux? And what is the best graphic program, Gimp?

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[ph34r]

Try this bash script


#!/bin/bash
/usr/X11R6/bin/import -window root ~/screenshot.jpg


It saves the image in your home directory with the filename screenshot.jpg

[Paul Weaver]

ksnapshot is good for GUI lovers out there