I am unable to take a screen shot - Talk Root - PC Hardware, Software and Web Development forums

04-13-2004, 03:33 PM

I can't take a screen shot using the "Print Screen" button as I can in
windows. When I press it nothing gets copied to the clipboard.

Software
KDE: 3.1.4
Kernel version: 2.4.21.99-default
SuSE: 9.0

Hardware
233Mhz PII
128 Mb of RAM
16Mb Voodoo 2 Banshee
SB Audigy 2
Sony DVD drive
Typhoon wireless keyboard and mouse

04-13-2004, 04:20 PM

On Tue, 13 Apr 2004 14:33:39 -0700, Tyrion wrote:

> I can't take a screen shot using the "Print Screen" button as I can in
> windows. When I press it nothing gets copied to the clipboard.

Try: "xwd -root -out screen.xwd"

man xwud

If you have ImageMagick installed:

man import

--
-Menno.

04-14-2004, 05:49 AM

In alt.os.linux, Tyrion uttered these immortal words:

> I can't take a screen shot using the "Print Screen" button as I can in
> windows. When I press it nothing gets copied to the clipboard.

This isn't Windows.

The defaults on my KDE 3.2.2 system are CTRL+Print Screen = window
screenshot and ALT+Print Screen = desktop screenshot. I don't know whether
this is doable in KDE 3.1.4. You can possibly set the keyboard shortcuts in
KControl.

You can use the GIMP or KSnapshot too as well as the other suggestions.

--
Andy.