Taking Desktop Screenshots

I was Googling around the other night looking for graphics
help and ran across this site where I learned about some
X stuff I didn’t even know was there on my box:

Useful Things You Can Do with FVWM

Example of dumping the root screen using xwd, part
of the X Window System included with OpenBSD:
xwd -root -out file

Example of displaying the dumped image with xwud,
again part of the X Window System:
xwud -in file

Example of dumping the root screen & outputting it to
jpg format using xwdtopnm and pnmtopng, both
included in the netpbm port/package:

xwd -root |xwdtopnm |pnmtopng > file.jpg

Example of converting an existing screenshot taken with
xwd, using xwdtopnm and pnmtopng:

xwdtopnm < file | pnmtopng > file.png
xwdtopnm < file | pnmtojpeg > file.jpg

Example converting a screenshot taken with xwd with
convert, part of the ImageMagick port/package:

convert file file.png
convert file file.jpg

Cheers!

Celebrate Freedom Nov 9 – Anniversary of the fall of the ‘Wall’

Nov 9, 1989. That’s the day the damnable Berlin Wall came down!
Celebrate freedom around the world today! Thanks, ‘Dutch’, I will
never forget your words:

“Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!”

Cheers!

Conky Update

Added some information at the end of Conky System Statistics
on a new way to stop one version of Conky from a script that runs
from a cronjob and start a new version, again from a script run
from a cronjob. Hope if anyone used the old way they didn't have
the same problem I did. If so, sorry. The current way has been
working without issue for several days now.

Cheers!