From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Sep 24 17:33:22 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A46CF106567C for ; Wed, 24 Sep 2008 17:33:22 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from frankstaals@gmx.net) Received: from edu-smtp-01.edutel.nl (edu-smtp-01.edutel.nl [88.159.1.221]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 404D28FC13 for ; Wed, 24 Sep 2008 17:33:22 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from frankstaals@gmx.net) Received: from Rena.FStaals.net (unknown [88.159.208.104]) by edu-smtp-01.edutel.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8A77867855; Wed, 24 Sep 2008 19:33:20 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <48DA79DB.2010403@gmx.net> Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2008 19:33:15 +0200 From: Frank Staals User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.16 (X11/20080911) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Roland Smith References: <20080924101536.GA34303@slackbox.xs4all.nl> In-Reply-To: <20080924101536.GA34303@slackbox.xs4all.nl> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: dhaneshk k , "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" Subject: Re: ScreenCapturing tool for FreeBSD-7.0 Release X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2008 17:33:22 -0000 Roland Smith wrote: > On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 09:09:23AM +0000, dhaneshk k wrote: > >> HI all ; >> >> Can anyone recommend a working screencapturing tool such as XvidCap >> for FreeBSD-7.0 , >> >> I installed XvidCap but its not working any other tools OR Solutions >> for doing screen Capturing .. >> >> It will be useful for demo presentations alot.. >> > > If you are using X11, try xwd(1) that comes with it. You'll need a tool > like netpbm or ImageMagick to convert dump files to other formats. > > Or you can use the gimp to capture and process window images under X11. > > I'm not aware of any screen dump apps on the console. You can of course > run console apps in an X terminal and capture that. > > Roland > ImageMagick has the 'import' command which can directly capture screen to some sensible format such as jpg. You'll get a pointer from which you can drag a box on the screen which you want to capture. Alternively you can just click an application to take a screenshot of that application window. And probably you can make screenshots of the entire screen without having to drag a box too -- -Frank Staals