Obtaining screenshots

[Mike Miller]

On Wed, 21 Mar 2007, James Weatherall wrote:

>> Depends on the version of VNC, I think when using the print scrn 
>> button. I notice when we moved from 3.7X to 4.X the regular print scrn 
>> did not work from that machine to my machine. I had to copy the image 
>> local to the PC I am connecting to.
>
> You just need to disable "Send special keys directly to server" in the 
> VNC Viewer options if you want PrintScreen to be processed by the viewer 
> computer rather than the server.


Thanks for this clarifiction.  I have used Alt-PrintScreen for years and 
was not aware of this issue because I never had the viewer configured to 
"Send special keys directly to server."  When I do configure it that way, 
and am running Xvnc on a Linux box, it allows me to save a .png of the 
active window to a .png file on the server.  Good to know.

Mike