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Many times I see AG after some companies' name, but I don't know the meaning.
For example, Siemens AG, Swatch AG, Suse Linux AG, etc.

I really spent a lot of google searchs on finding the meaning of AG.
Maybe it's hard to search too short and too common word.

At last, I got it from OnVista.com.

AG (abbr. for German Joint Stock Company) AG stands for a German Joint Stock Company, a capital funded company which exists as a legal entity. The shareholders are co-owners of the Share Capital, which has been divided up into shares. The goal of a Joint Stock Company is to accumulate capital for investment and the like by means of share emissions, in order to divide the entrepreneurial risk as much as possible among the shareholders. AG (German Joint Stock Company) The Joint Stock Company is a company whose shareholders, or investors participate in the share capital through share purchases. Investors are liable only up to the amount invested in the company, not for any sums surpassing their investment.

Today I tried to take a screenshot of gdm in JDS.
It spent my a few time to find the solution.
Finally, this webpage helped my out.

Here's my steps.
1) edit /etc/X11/gdm/Init/Default, add 1 line, xhost +, before the lastline "exit 0"
2) Restart X (Ctrl+Alt+Backspace). Log in and log out.
3) Ctrl+Alt+F2, switch to text console, log in as root.
4) chvt 7;sleep 2;xwd -display :0.0 -out /tmp/dump.xwd -root
5) After 2 seconds, you will hear two beeps, Now you get your screenshot to /tmp/dump.xwd. You can edit it by gimp.

Another tip of taking screenshot in JDS.
If you want to take screenshot of popup-menu, you can try /usr/bin/gnome-panel-screenshot --delay=5, it will give you enough time to pop up the menu.

If you want to get screenshot of installation screens, I think you must use VMware.