[SWLUG] screen dumps

Peter Bradley apvx95 at dsl.pipex.com
Thu Sep 2 17:43:22 UTC 2004


On Wed, 2004-09-01 at 23:47, Chris M. Jackson wrote:
> On Wed, 1 Sep 2004, Philip Barnes wrote:
> > On Wed, 2004-09-01 at 20:23, Peter Bradley wrote:
> > > I know this is a really stupid question, but how do you do a screen dump
> > > in Linux?  I need to get some screen dumps into an OOo.org document to
> > > send to my MSc tutor.
> 
> > In gnome, I'm running fedora, I just press the 'Print Screen' key, a box
> > pops up asking what to save it as.
> 
> Rather nicely, you can also do things like Alt+PrintScreen to grab just 
> the current window, though the definition of current may vary depending on 
> yourfocus settings.

Yeah, I tried all that stuff Chris, but in SuSE 8.2 (KDE) none of it
worked.  Dunno why.  Something to do with KDE, I guess.

Peter





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