If you have a software problem a picture tells a thousand words
Windows
7 or 8
- Press the windows key and s simultaneously
- Type "snipping"
- The snipping tool application's icon should appear
- Press "new" and select the area to copy
- Optionally annotate the image with the drawing tools
- Choose "Save" (Disc icon) to save as a file or "Email" (Letter icon) to send as an email
3.11, 95, NT, 98, ME, 2000, XP
- Open Paint
- Switch to application to be captured
- Press alt and printscreen (aka prtscr) simultaneously
- Switch to Paint
- Press control and v simultaneously
- Save the image.
Mac
- Open Preview
- Choose one of the options from "File > Take Screenshot"
Linux
X11 with Imagemagick
- Open a terminal
- To capture a window
- import outputfile.png
- Click the window to be captured
- To capture the whole screen
- import -win root outputfile.png
X11 basic
- Open a terminal
- To capture a window
- xwd -out outputfile.xwd
- Click the window to be captured
- To capture the whole screen
- xwd -root -out outputfile.xwd