Screen Capture Maya In Linux

[user_deleted]

Hello:
I am trying to take a screen capture of maya on my linux box, but am having a little trouble. Using import or gimp or vnc, i can't get linux to take a screen grab of the drop down menus. (File, Edit, Modify...) I tell gimp to wait 3 seconds before taking the grab so I can go over to maya and click on the menu, but the menu is not there in the gimp, but is visible on my screen. I'm guessing maya uses some overlays or direct drawing that these programs can't get to. Anyone know of any other programs to try? I've tried, gimp, import, xv and vnc...
Thanks!

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[user_deleted]

It may help to know what Linux distribution you're using and what desktop. For example on SLED 10 with the default installation of Gnome there is a screen capture utility in "Computer/More Applications/System/Take Screenshot". The same capture utility can be found on Gnome for SUSE Linux 10.1 (aka: OpenSUSE) in the toolbar menu link "Applications".

[subjectego]

I think that what you are trying to do is impossible, unless you wanna take a photo of your monitor
Maya uses OpenGL overlays to draw marking menus and hotbox, and as far as I understand any program that grabs your screen in X _also_ uses overlays, therefore making it impossible.. I might be very wrong here, please post if you found a way to do this.

[user_deleted]

QUOTE(Dark_Knight @ 07/26/06, 06:41 PM) [snapback]243505[/snapback]
It may help to know what Linux distribution you're using and what desktop. For example on SLED 10 with the default installation of Gnome there is a screen capture utility in "Computer/More Applications/System/Take Screenshot". The same capture utility can be found on Gnome for SUSE Linux 10.1 (aka: OpenSUSE) in the toolbar menu link "Applications".

Sorry, thought i put that stuff in there when i posted but i guess i didn't... it's FC3 using xfce4.2.0.
OpenGL renderer string: Quadro FX 3400/PCI/SSE2
OpenGL version string: 2.0.1 NVIDIA 81.74

Thanks
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[marlio]

import -w root picture.png