Hi, having the same problem but no experience how to use GIMP I would be grateful for some hints just to take a snapshot of a window and to save it in a format which can be imported into a LyX document.
Thanks Hellmut >"Convert" should be fine... you might look at the help for that > program to check things like dpi, though. Also you could use GIMP or > other such programs where you can see the result on screen. My > suspicion is that it's only GV that looks bad -- not your pictures!