Ok - I thought maybe the beep was due to error - but apparently not. I have found how to disable the beep with the -silent option However - I am still not able to get a screen shot - it resulting png is just black or black. export DISPLAY=:0.0 import -silent -window root screen.png the file is just all black. Thoughts? Jerry _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos