Taking a Screenshot
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import
An easy way to take a screenshot of your curent system is using the import command:
import -window root screenshot.jpg
import is part of the imagemagick package.
If you run twinview or dualhead, simply take the screenshot twice and use imagemagick to paste them together:
import -window root -display :0.0 -screen /tmp/0.png import -window root -display :0.1 -screen /tmp/1.png convert +append /tmp/0.png /tmp/1.png screenshot.png rm /tmp/{0,1}.png
gimp
You also can take screenshots with gimp (File -> Acquire -> Screenshot ...).
xwd
xwd is part of the xorg-apps package.
Take a screenshot of the root window:
xwd -root -out screenshot.xwd
scrot
Scrot, available in the "extra" repository, provides for taking screenshots from the CLI, and offers features such as a user-definable time delay. Unless instructed otherwise, it saves the file in the directory bash was at when the command was launched.
scrot -t 20 -d 5
saves a dated .PNG file, along with a thumbnail (20% of original) for Web posting. It provides a five second delay before capturing, in this instance.
KDE
If you use KDE, you might want to use ksnapshot, which can also be activated using <Prt Scr>.
GNOME
You can press <Prt Scr> or Apps->Accessories->Take Screenshot.
Note: if <Prt Scr> complains about not finding gnome-screenshot or there is no "Take Screenshot" entry in your menu, you will need to install the gnome-utils package.