Re: [linux-audio-dev] [ot] gimp is scalable.

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Subject: Re: [linux-audio-dev] [ot] gimp is scalable.
From: Frank Barknecht (barknech_AT_ph-cip.uni-koeln.de)
Date: Sat Nov 18 2000 - 16:50:25 EET

Paul Barton-Davis hat gesagt: // Paul Barton-Davis wrote:

> >> * run display(1), shrink it by 50% (the gimp can't do it!)
> >
> > gimp can do this rather easily... The option is "Scale Image".
>
> yep, and it causes my machine to exercise a long-lived problem in the
> linux kernel, which is that it runs out of memory and starts killing
> processes wildly. display(1) does a rescale of a full-screen
> (1280x1024) image in about 3 seconds; the gimp starts, and after 30
> seconds, my machine is essentially dead.

What about import(1):

$ import -geometry 50% [-window root] /tmp/screen.png

-window root: capture entire screen

bye, 

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