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466 CHAPTER 12 ADDITIONAL TOPICS Figure 12-4. The Screenshot dialog The options are all straightforward. You can take a shot of a single window, with or without its borders: click Grab, and then click on the window you want to shoot. Include window decoration controls whether the screen shot will include the window s frame and title bar. Or you can take a shot of your whole desktop. You can also choose Select a region in order to drag out a region of the desktop with the mouse. The Wait [0] seconds before grabbing is particularly useful if you need to perform an action in the window while the screen shot is happening. For example, if you want a shot of a window with a menu showing, you can set a delay of five seconds, click Grab, move to the target window and click to select it; then you have five seconds to pop up a menu. You can set the delay as long or as short as you like, depending on the difficulty of the operation (and the speed of the system). Since GIMP calls a system program to perform the actual screen shot, there are some limitations. For instance, on some systems, screen shots don t show the mouse cursor. If you need a screen shot showing a cursor, you ll have to cheat by getting a copy of the cursor image somewhere else and pasting it into your screen shot. Tip If you ever need GIMP s special cursors for a screen shot, the GIMP source includes a file called gimp-tool-cursors.xcf which includes all the cursors used in GIMP. Each part of each cursor is a separate layer, so you can combine them as needed. Screen shots of windows are usually limited to the window s own boundaries (Figure 12-5). If your menu goes beyond the boundaries of the window, you re better off shooting the whole desktop, or a region of the desktop (you ll have to guess how far the menus will extend). You can always crop off any extra. Certain types of windows, such as games that are using accelerated 3-D graphics, may not produce a screen shot that looks exactly like what you see. Finally, GIMP will shoot the content of windows as it appears on the screen. If your window is slightly off the screen, or is partially covered by another window, the screen shot will show that.
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