Guenter Milde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> > > gimp will take a screenshot for you.  you can then save it using gimp to
> > > anything you want, jpg, gif, etc
> >
> > That's really a 'windows' attitude ;) Launching a multi-megabytes complex
> > program for a very simple task that can be done with two command lines.
> 
> Still, this might be faster than browsing tons of man-pages to find out what
> exactly the right command lines are ...

Using  apropos capture  narrows those tons of manpages down to four.
Of the four,  import(1) is probably the one you're looking for. :-)

-- 
Larry Kollar   k o l l a r  at  a l l t e l . n e t
"Strange that people always suggest commercial systems when the
phrase 'mission critical' comes up." -- Sebastian Rahtz, on XML-Doc

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