Re: unable to take screenshots

2006-02-22 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
Magnus Therning wrote: On Wed, Feb 22, 2006 at 09:46:47AM -0500, kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: Hi all Using Debian unstable, KDE 3.5.1, installed from official debian repositories. I used xwd |convert - screenshot.jpg $ls -al screenshot.jpg -rw-r--r-- 1 rajulocal rajulocal 1166 2006-02-22

Re: unable to take screenshots

2006-02-22 Thread Magnus Therning
On Wed, Feb 22, 2006 at 09:46:47AM -0500, kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: >Hi all > >Using Debian unstable, KDE 3.5.1, installed from official debian repositories. > >I used > >xwd |convert - screenshot.jpg > >$ls -al screenshot.jpg >-rw-r--r-- 1 rajulocal rajulocal 1166 2006-02-22 09:40 screenshot.jpg

Re: unable to take screenshots

2006-02-22 Thread Digby Tarvin
Which window did you select for the screen shot? You didn't use the '-root' argument, so I assume you didn't want the full screen... In any case, try the tools individually before trying to bundle them up in pipelines. For example: xwd >/tmp/xwd.out file /tmp/xwd.out /tmp