FC4: How to capture a window's screen snapshot?

[Paul Smith]

On 9/18/05, A. G. <prothonotar at tarnation.dyndns.org> wrote:
> > > > Running FC4, I want to capture a screen snapshot of a
> > > > displayed window and save it into a word document. I
> > > > tried Ctrl-PrintScreen to copy and paste it to Writer
> > > > Word processor as I did with Windows XP, but it didn't
> > > > work. Please let me know how can I do that?
> > >
> > > Right click on menu bar, select Add to Panel, select Take Screenshot.
> > > This gives you a clickable icon to snap the whole display and then the
> > > choice of where to store the png file.
> > >
> > > Another option, From the RedHat menu button, select
> > > Desktop->Preferences->Keyboard Shortcuts. Look for the "Take a
> > > Screenshot" and "Take a Screenshot of a Window". Set them and use them.
> > > In all cases you will have to save the png file somewhere, then load it
> > > into Writer.
> >
> > To capture all the screen press PrintScreen and to capture only the
> > active window press Alt PrintScreen.
> > At least it works for me.
> 
> I'm using what I believe to be the default setup, with metacity, and
> Cntl-Printscreen takes a screenshot of the active window and lets me
> save it to a png. YMMV.

Another alternative is to use ksnapshot, but I am not sure whether it
only works on KDE.

Paul