tldr/pages/common/import.md

import

Capture some or all of an X server screen, and save the image to a file. Part of the ImageMagick library.

• Capture the entire X server screen in the PostScript image format:

import -window root {{output.postscript}}

• Capture contents of a remote X server screen in the PNG image format:

import -window root -display {{remote_host}}:{screen}.{display} {{output.png}}

• Capture a specific window, given its ID as displayed by xwininfo, into the JPEG format:

import -window {{window_id}} {{output.jpg}}