On Sun, May 25, 2008 at 3:39 PM, Peter Tribble <peter.tribble at gmail.com> wrote: > 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.
gimp --no-fonts --no-data will speed up gimp loading quite a bit. > > ksnapshot is definitely a possible solution, but presumes you have KDE, > which isn't always the case. True. I use KDE all the time. Regards, Moinak. > > -- > -Peter Tribble > http://www.petertribble.co.uk/ - http://ptribble.blogspot.com/ >
