It's all in the delay. Give yourself time to get 'em open where you want. In distros with ksnapshot (kde), it's a breeze, just set the snapshot delay for 6, 7, or 8 seconds - whatever you need.

In light distros without ksnapshot, it's still a matter of delaying. In those cases, if I am forced to use like scrot, then it has a switch to allow for it. For example, scrot -d 8 desktop.jpg

For those distros in which I must resort to xwd, I use sleep. Sleep is basically a delay mechanism for unix/linux. So, for example: sleep 6; xwd -root > desktop.jpg

(Of course with xwd, they aren't really saved as jpegs. I just use that extension for convenience later when I convert them to jpgs.)

hth,
-s

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Thanks for the reply and explanation srlinuxx. I'm gonna give it a try.

When I try to take a screenie with ksnapshot of mplayer while it is playing a clip or movie, the output only shows a blue screen. What do I need to do in order to make the frame in the movie show during the snapshot?

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You can also use Imagemagick from the terminal. With Imagemagick (and a delay) you can even resize the screenshots while you are taking them.