[desktop-discuss] Weaning myself off /usr/dt/bin

[Peter Tribble]

On 2/8/07, Laszlo (Laca) Peter <laca at sun.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-02-08 at 20:59 +0000, Peter Tribble wrote:
> > The last one seems a bit harder. Getting a snapshot of the whole screen is
> > very easy in gnome. And it seems that gnome-screenshot can also do a window
> > without much difficulty. But how do I get a snapshot of an arbitrary
> > region of the screen like I can with sdtimage -snapshot ?
>
> You can use gimp's File -> Acquire -> Screenshot.

So you can. And it works quite well. Thanks for the tip!

(This has the additional advantage over sdtimage that I can save
in png format, which is something that would have been nice for
sdtimage to do.)

The downside is the following:

% ptime sdtimage -snapshot

real        1.526
user        0.055
sys         0.024

% ptime gimp
This is a development version of GIMP.  Debug messages may appear here.


real       12.191
user        7.342
sys         0.569

And it took very much longer the first time I ran it...

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