Alastair wrote: > There's an easier way from KDE - do Alt-F2 then type ksnapshot. The > snapshot is grabbed immediately you press Return, then the ksnapshot > window appears and you can do what you like with it.
This is helpful . . . however, my original question was: is there any way to do a "Print Screen" in Linux . . . >> which would be comparable in simplicity and ease-of-use << . . . to the way it works with MS windows? Again, I want to emphasize that I am definitely pro-Linux, however when something as useful and basic as Print Screen works as well and efficiently as it does under MS windows, then I would hope that the Linux community would be eager to develop an equal or superior functionality for Linux. In this case, it seems that what has been suggested for Linux thus far is not nearly as simple and efficient as as the MS Print Screen feature. Simplicity and easy of use is not subjective. It is determined by how few steps (keystrokes and separate manual operations) are required. In the case of MS Print Screen, there are only two steps: #1. Press the Print Screen button. #2. Press "paste" in any application program in which one desires to place the captured image. I use it numerous times almost every day, capturing screen prints and pasting them in LView (the most easy-to-use, versatile, graphics tool I have), or in Paint or in Paint Shop Pro or in Pagemaker or in any other application program where I can quickly and easily crop, resize, or edit the captured image. For comparison, using Ksnapshot with Linux, there are literally dozens of steps and keystrokes involved in saving a captured image to a file then opening that file within any given application program. Why is it not possible, with Linux, to use the Print Screen key to simply capture a screen image into memory (as MS clipboard apparently does) so that it can be pasted, from memory, into any given application program without having to go through all the extra steps of saving the captured image to a file first and then several more steps and keystrokes to import the saved file into any given application? Surely there must be a way to do this. Joe
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