On Sun, 2008-05-25 at 17:22 +0530, Moinak Ghosh wrote:
> 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.

I'd use KDE but the currently available binaries are terribly out of
date. I mean, come on, 3.5.9 is out already in Linux land and yet, no
builds for Solaris yet.

Matthew


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