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I'd use KDE but the currently available binaries are terribly out of date.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
