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X hotkeys with xbindkeys
xbindkeys is very easy to use when you wish to bind hotkey presses on X sessions, either when you are on a xterm or otherwise. You have be within the Xwindow session, that is all.
How do I capture program screens to a file or print them? For a "user friendly" OS, Windows has had really awful screen capture in the past. You press PRT-SCRN, which appears to do nothing. You then have to open a program like Microsoft Paint, hit CTRL-V to paste in the shot, and then you can do whatever you want with it.
Grokking the Gimp I'm not an artistic sort. My drawing abilities barely exceed stick figures, my color sense is awful, and even though my own aunt was my 7th grade Art teacher, she still had to give me a "D". I think she thought that I couldn't have been trying very hard- after all, her very own grandfather was the designer of the murals in the Lincoln Memorial, the artist who designed the original National Geographic Magazine cover that ran for so many years and other notable works- and the talent ran strongly in most of his descendants, including my own father and my siblings. They all could draw anything- perhaps not well enough to cause you to gasp in admiration, but more than well enough that you knew what they drew. But not I.
How do I capture program screens to a file or print them? For a "user friendly" OS, Windows has had really awful screen capture in the past. You press PRT-SCRN, which appears to do nothing. You then have to open a program like Microsoft Paint, hit CTRL-V to paste in the shot, and then you can do whatever you want with it.
Grokking the Gimp I'm not an artistic sort. My drawing abilities barely exceed stick figures, my color sense is awful, and even though my own aunt was my 7th grade Art teacher, she still had to give me a "D". I think she thought that I couldn't have been trying very hard- after all, her very own grandfather was the designer of the murals in the Lincoln Memorial, the artist who designed the original National Geographic Magazine cover that ran for so many years and other notable works- and the talent ran strongly in most of his descendants, including my own father and my siblings. They all could draw anything- perhaps not well enough to cause you to gasp in admiration, but more than well enough that you knew what they drew. But not I.
