An old X11 routine -xgrabsc-

[Ed Greshko]

Reg Clemens wrote:
> In the 'old' X11, there used to be a program xgrabsc, which would 'grab'
> a portion of the screen.  That is:
>
>     You started the program and got some sort of little icon.
>     You moved the icon to the upper left of the portion of the screen
>         you wanted to capture.
>     You clicked the mouse.
>     The icon probably changed and now you strech the box, with this 
>         first point at the upper Left, to a lower right.
>     You clicked again.
>
> At this point you had some sort of graphics file that displayed the 
> portion of the screen that you had captured, which you could (say)
> send to the printer, or include in a mail message.
>
> That routine is long gone, I have to assume that something has replaced
> it, but I have no idea what it would be.  Any ideas?
>
>
>   
Don't know what X program would take its place...maybe xwd helps a bit....

But, if you are running Gnome there is always gnome-screenshot and KDE
has ksnapshot.

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