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diff --git a/doc/info/chap/overview.texinfo b/doc/info/chap/overview.texinfo index f5d1ff3..26765f4 100644 --- a/doc/info/chap/overview.texinfo +++ b/doc/info/chap/overview.texinfo @@ -10,11 +10,16 @@ rendered on the framebuffer.} @command{scrotty} is designed after @command{scrot}, but includes a some improvements. Namely it does not support delaying the screenshot, selecting image quality or creating -thumbnails, but it has support for adding arbitrary arguments -to @command{convert} (from the ImageMagick project), which -is used to save the image. +thumbnails. Such operations is left to be done by the user +with the option @option{--exec} and a utility such as +@command{convert} (from the ImageMagick project.) @command{scrotty} reads the data stored in the framebuffers, convert it the @sc{PNM} images and pipes it to @command{convert} to create @sc{PNG} images. +@command{scrotty} can appear to be a bit slow. This is not +@command{scrotty}'s fault. Reading a framebuffer, even if +not processing the data, takes time. In fact, screenshots +for @sc{X} are slow too. + |