On Sun, 25 May 2008, Peter Tribble wrote: >> 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.
Even Solaris 10 comes with ImageMagick which supports capturing the full screen or individual windows: import -window root root.png But of course I would prefer to promote that Solaris/OpenSolaris adopt GraphicsMagick, which is a stabilized (and faster) fork of ImageMagick which I maintain. See "http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/";. Bob ====================================== Bob Friesenhahn bfriesen at simple.dallas.tx.us, http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/ GraphicsMagick Maintainer, http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/
