Nate Straz wrote: > On Mon, Sep 10, 2001 at 05:05:27PM -0500, Ben Lutgens wrote: > >>On Mon, Sep 10, 2001 at 04:30:50PM -0500, Bob Tanner wrote: >> >>>Anyone have recommendations for taking screenshots under X? >>> >>import -window root screenshot.jpg >> >>import comes with imagemagick package, as opposed to useing "root" as the >>window, you can run xwininfo, click in the window you wanna know the id of, >>and pass the id: number instead. >> > > You can actually click on the window that you want the screen shot of. > But I don't see any way to get the cursor included or drop-down menus. You might be able to get it by disabling hardware cursor. But even then I think X has logic to prevent the cursor from getting screencaptured. VGA cards for some time have done hardware mouse cursors. Which is basically a good ol' hardware sprite overlayed on the framebuffer on the video out. So its not actually in the frame buffer. You're best bet is to just fake it in Gimp.