Posted by Afrand Agah on February 15, 2001 at 11:09:01:
If you wish to capture a graphical unix program, then theres a tool I find
most helpful for doing this. It's a program called 'xv'. You simply open
up a prompt and type xv. If you want the window you opened up xv with to
close, you may use the command: 'xv & exit'. The program will show you
logo screen with fishes and things on it. Right click on this picture,
and another window with lots of buttons will pop up. You should see a
'grab' button. Hit that and then follow the directions and 'xv' will grab
your screen shot for you! Once you have the shot you want, use 'save' to
save it to a file. If you wish to print it at the cis dept then you may
save it as a postscript file and send that to the printers -- you'll find
that xv's postscript page layout is quite nice I think. You set the size,
and exaclty where on the page the printed picture will go. One gotcha
with this program is that you can take a screenshot of the entire
screen. If you do this, xv will display that captured screen shot to you
which will cover up the entire screen with the screenshot! You can notice
the phenomon because you cannot click on any buttons (because they're
actually just a picture of the buttons now!) and if you drag the mouse, it
creates a rainbow colored flashing box, whcih is xv's selection tool. If
you find you've gotten into this situation, you may right click on the
picture to open up or close the xv control window, so you may either
delete the whole picture, or you may select the piece you want and then
use the 'crop' button to keep that part and discard the rest.