On 5/24/08, Moinak Ghosh <moinakg at gmail.com> wrote: > On Sat, May 24, 2008 at 3:04 AM, Rich Teer <rich.teer at rite-group.com> > wrote: >> On Fri, 23 May 2008, Peter Tribble wrote: >> >>> The one thing I still miss (after trying again to remove /usr/dt/bin >>> from my path) is 'sdtimage -snapshot', for which I've still to find >>> a satisfactory replacement. >> >> AGreed; GNOME's snapshot tool is somewhat wanting, especially in the >> area of snapshots of random screen areas. >> >>> http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/desktop-discuss/2007-February/008966.html > > You can use GIMP or Ksnapshot for that. I have rarely if ever used > the GNOME snapshot tool.
sdtimage starts up in significantly less than a second, even from cold. A cold start of gimp is in the 10-20s range; even a warm start is well over 5 seconds before you can actually think about what you're going to do. The gimp solution is fine if you're wanting to end up in gimp, but otherwise is far too slow. ksnapshot is definitely a possible solution, but presumes you have KDE, which isn't always the case. -- -Peter Tribble http://www.petertribble.co.uk/ - http://ptribble.blogspot.com/
