An old X11 routine -xgrabsc-

[Bob Marcan]

On Mon, 05 Oct 2009 10:58:31 +0800
Ed Greshko <Ed.Greshko at greshko.com> wrote:

> 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.
> 


You can use xv for  this.
xv.x86_64      3.10a.jumbopatch.20070520-10.fc10      @rpmfusion-nonfree-updates

BR, Bob