How do I take a screenshot?

[Centurian]

Hey,

Under windows I would just press printscreen and the screenshot would be in the windows directory.

Now I need to take some screen shots in Gnome can anyone tell me how? I have checked the man pages and found nothing and so far have found no way to do this on google.

Any help appreciated thanks

[asdf]

If you have imagemagick installed, you can use the 'import' utility. To use it, just type 'import <filename>.<ext>'. You can pick whatever extension you want. If you want to take a screenshot of the entire window, type 'import -window root <filename>.<ext>'.

[Centurian]

Hey,

Cool thanks much. I was searching some more on Google and found another option also. Gnome has an applet called screenshooter that can live in the panel. You can click it to either take a full screen or partial screen pic.

Thanks for the help. I appreciate it.  

[voidmain]

Under KDE I really like "ksnapshot".  It should work in Gnome too.

[mskarl]

If you are still looking for more resources.  look at this link

http://www.zdnet.co.uk/help/tips/story/0,2802,e7108396,00.html

[Centurian]

Hey,

Thanks all, I will check out all these options. I have to admit though screenshot is very easy to use and it offers alot more control than windows printscreen.

[Calum]

screenshooter is great, use it.
ksnapshot is also great but it does not work in GNOME. maybe it does now actually, i am running some prehistoric versions of GNOME and KDE (still on KDE 1.1!)
Also gimp can run in either KDE and GNOME and it does instant screenshots which you can then manipulate photoshop style.
to run gimp, type:

gimp &

at a command prompt, then type

exit

to get rid of the prompt, and i think you go to "File>grab screen" or something similar from the gimp menu.