Re: [Gimp-user] Windows Version lacks 'Select a region to grab'

["Dora Smith" <villandra gmail com>]

It has never occurred to me to use GIMP to do screenshots.  At face value, 
that sounds like extra work, kind of like using WORD to do screenshots.

I use Screenshot Captor, for Windows 7.   It is excellent, and has all the 
options you need.  You can select, crop, resize, and do some other things 
I've not had to do, and save it in quite a variety of formats.   It even 
saves it in its own screen and then you can just open the program and drag 
and drop to email screenshots.

Ubuntu has good screenshot programs available through the software manager, 
and I like them as well.

But what version of Windows are you using?   Ofnuts' guess brings to mind 
the fact that Windows 8/ 10 has serious identity confusion; it often thinks 
it's a tablet.   "Can't get the mouse pointer when doing a screenshot of the 
whole screen" - really?   LOL!

You know, you could get a second hard drive and try out one of the Ubuntu 
flavors.   Unity most closely resembles Windows 8, and Kubuntu most 
resembles Windows XP, and if you add the Cairo dock (requires up to date 
video processor and its own Linux drivers if it has them), it resembles 
Windows 7.   Unity won't run if the video processor isn't up to date either, 
and it can be hard with gnome.   But if you've got Windows 8, the video 
processor is up to date, because it's a new computer.

Dora

-----Original Message----- 
From: Ofnuts
Sent: Monday, August 24, 2015 5:57 PM
To: gimp-user-list gnome org
Subject: Re: [Gimp-user] Windows Version lacks 'Select a region to grab'

Possiby a restriction due to Windows screen management. IIRC you don't
get the mouse pointer when doing a screenshot of the whole screen.


On 25/08/15 00:14, Pat David wrote:
> on 2.8.14 (Partha's build), I only have "Grab a single window" and "Grab
> the whole screen".
>
> So I'm going to say that there is no region selection for grabbing screen
> shots in windows?
>
> On Mon, Aug 24, 2015 at 5:04 PM AJ <codechump gmail com> wrote:
>
> > Hello!
> >
> > I'm regularly an Ubuntu Gimp user, but have occasion to use Gimp on
> > WIndows. When I have to use Windows, I was wondering if it's a version
> > issue or missing plugin or something... but the Windows version doesn't
> > appear to have the feature I love, that is 'Select a region to grab' in 
> > the
> > Create | Screenshot option.
> >
> > Can anyone please advise?

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