[Gimp-user] Getting Screenshots directly into GIMP on different, operating systems

[David Gowers]

On 7/27/07, Mark Szymanski <mark6691 at bellsouth.net> wrote:
> Actually, no.
> On Linux/X11/DWM, for example,  it does.. precisely nothing. Gnome includes
> that keybinding you mention, so it will work if you are running Gnome, but
> not KDE. Also-- does a Mac keyboard even HAVE a PrintScreen key? Google
> saith: no, it doesn't  :)
>
> <snip>
>
> My experience has been completely the opposite. I run KDE on openSuse 10.2 with Gimp v. 2.2.13. Using the Print Screen key, I saved the image as .png, cropped it, saved that, and re-opened in Gimp. Ksnapshot took the screen capture almost immediately. I have not yet tried this on Windows as I resist using that OS at home; I get enough of that at work.
>
> Regards,
>   ~Mark

ah, looks like my reference
(http://www.novell.com/coolsolutions/tip/2289.html) is out of date (by
3 years :)