getimage: Convert an X11 Window into an Image

Getimage allows the user to select a window (or portion) from the screen running X-Windows, and turn it into a viff format image. Getimage provides the user with a convenient method to convert images from other formats into the Khoros 2.0 viff format.

The features provided by getimage include:

• Copy region from screen (with the mouse).
• Grab the entire screen.
• Output image in bitmap format.
• Grab the screen (WM) decoration.
• Output filename.

Two ways of using getimage: from the command line user interface (CLUI):

• Obtain a single window in its entirity from the screen.

  	getimage -o output.filename
  

  You specify the window by either clicking the mouse on the desired window, or by specifying the window by name.
• Obtain a specified portion of the screen, regardless of the number of windows which it may include.

  	getimage -o output.filename -e
  

  You specify the image to be created by first clicking the mouse on the upper left hand corner, and keeping the mouse button down move the mouse to the right hand corner of the desired portion.

If you wish to use the Graphical User Interface then type:

        getimage -gui

GUI for getimage