Re: Capturing the GNOME panel ...

["Jesse D . Sightler" <jsight mindspring com>]

Why not just grab the whole screen with Gimp and edit out the relevant
portions?  That seems like the easiest way to me.

On Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:40:43 ian stevens wrote:
> I am using GNOME as the topic of a paper for a grad course I am taking and
> would like to provide a few screenshots.  One screenshot I want to include
> is a capture of the panel with a menu and a drawer extended.  I tried
> doing this with 'import -window [panel-id] -delay 5' and then extending
> the drawer and the main menu before the five seconds is up, but I only get
> the main panel with no menu or drawer.  The problem lies in the fact that
> the drawer has a different ID than the panel, and possibly the menu as
> well.  I tried using -descend but that didn't work either.
> 
> What is the best way to capture the panel with all its children?
> 
> thanks,
> ian.
> 
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