How to make a screenshot?

sigsegv at mail.ru sigsegv at mail.ru
Fri Jun 4 09:35:43 PDT 2004


Andrew L. Gould wrote:
> How can I make a screenshot of what's on my monitor?  (I searched the
> archives unsuccessfully for "screenshot".)
> 
> I'm running FreeBSD 4.10.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Andrew

Gimp is an image manipulation program similar to Photoshop or 
PaintShopPro, which can also grab screenshots etc. Run Gimp and then 
select File->Acquire->Screen_Shot. Assuming you're connected to the 
Internet, you can install Gimp via ftp:

$ su
Password:
athlon1000# pkg_add -r gimp
Fetching 
ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-5.2.1-release/Latest/gimp.tbz...



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