On 1/13/2017 12:51 PM, Jerry Geis wrote: > Yes I am running as root. If I try as a user I get the same behavior. > > Two things here. > If on my desktop in a gnome window I run "import -silent -window root > screen.png" I get a file. > > However if I run the command using a shell script on a machine its not > working. > So in my script I have: > export DISPLAY=:0.0 > /usr/bin/import -silent -window root screen.png when you're on that gnome window, echo $DISPLAY ... is it in fact :0.0 ? -- john r pierce, recycling bits in santa cruz