In the 'old' X11, there used to be a program xgrabsc, which would 'grab' a portion of the screen. ... 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?

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.