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1 Screenshots from Command Line
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3 :author: Aaron Ball
4 :email: nullspoon@iohq.net
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8 Today I was wanting to screenshot some work I had done on a vector image inside
9 of the window. Now, I have a pretty minimalistic install on my box. Due to this
10 I didn't have a screenshot application aside from http://gimp.org[The Gimp]...
11 or so I though.
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13 Like almost everything else in Linux, it turns out you can take screenshots
14 from the command line. To do this you use the import command.
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17 import image.jpg
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20 This will change your cursor to a plus symbol. Click the window you want to
21 screenshot and it'll save it to the current directory.
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23 You may notice however that if your window isn't in the foreground, it may
24 require two or more clicks to get the window you want up so you can screenshot
25 it. To do this, we simply need a delay.
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28 import -pause 4 image.jpg
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31 The -pause switch will delay the screenshot by the duration specified. In the
32 example, we delay it for four seconds. Once the delay is up, again you will see
33 the mouse cursor change to a plus symbol. Select the window you want to
34 screenshot and it will save it to the current directory, unless you have
35 specified a different one to save to.
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37 Category:Linux
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