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Old 28th June 2008
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Your first mistake (highlight mine) -- asking a misleading question:
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I pressed Alt+ Printscreen key but it doesn't print. Please help.
Your second mistake (highlight mine) -- assuming that X11 behaves like Microsoft Windows:
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Printer? What do you mean? I just want to capture the printscreen but it doesnot work.
There are many ways to capture an image of an X window or an entire X desktop.

One of the easiest is The Gimp (# pkg_add gimp), a "Photoshop"-like image manipulation tool, and use "File...Acquire...Screenshot."

Please read one or two books on operating Unix or Linux. www.openbsd.org/books.html has a nice list.
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