Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2008 17:53:44 +0100 From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> To: Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> Cc: zhenghua wang <ntiluno@gmail.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How can I get the screenshots only under the command-line? Message-ID: <20081029175344.ec0f1997.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <892FC18B-8AB6-4941-B9F1-110ECFCC2F9A@mac.com> References: <9c3cc89e0810280916q2a8ada51q8e43fbb9090d7fe2@mail.gmail.com> <892FC18B-8AB6-4941-B9F1-110ECFCC2F9A@mac.com>
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On Tue, 28 Oct 2008 11:32:16 -0700, Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> wrote: > Hi-- > > On Oct 28, 2008, at 9:16 AM, zhenghua wang wrote: > > I wanna get some screenshots of my command-line-only system(8- > > current),how > > can I perform this? > > Thanks a lot,looking forward to your mail. > > See "man vidcontrol", as in: > > The following command will capture the contents of the first > virtual ter- > minal, and redirect the output to the shot.scr file: > > vidcontrol -p < /dev/ttyv0 > shot.scr Another option would be to utilize the mouse edit buffer to capture screen content in "ASCII only", it requires a standard three button mouse and moused running correctly. Then you can select parts of the screen content or the whole screen using the left mouse button, then use Alt+PF2 (for example) to switch to another VT, login, start an editor (ee screen.txt) and then press the middle mouse button - the selected text will be put 1:1 into the file. Unelegang manual work, but sometimes useful (e. g. if you need screenshots for documentation purposes where a simple ASCII reproduction without colors or other attributes is needed). -- Polytropon >From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...
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