From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Sep 22 21:02:56 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 29C3C16A53E for ; Wed, 22 Sep 2004 21:02:56 +0000 (GMT) Received: from smtp.datapro.co.za (mail.uskonet.com [196.3.164.40]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CD58F43D39 for ; Wed, 22 Sep 2004 21:02:52 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ultraviolet@omina.co.za) Received: from omina.co.za (morn.omina.co.za [196.41.199.54]) by smtp.datapro.co.za (Postfix) with ESMTP id A77E939D0C for ; Wed, 22 Sep 2004 22:51:41 +0200 (SAST) Received: by omina.co.za (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 31325182F37; Wed, 22 Sep 2004 23:01:18 +0200 (SAST) Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2004 23:01:18 +0200 From: William Fletcher To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20040922210118.GT58716@omina.co.za> References: <200409222120.53637.dgw@liwest.at> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: attachment In-Reply-To: <200409222120.53637.dgw@liwest.at> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Subject: Re: Screen recording utility X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: ultraviolet@turandot.net List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2004 21:02:56 -0000 Hi, The only thing I can suggest is xspy (/usr/ports/security/xspy). I'm not sure how well it works. There is also xmove, which may also be similar to what you're after. /usr/ports/x11/xmove I hope thats helpful. On Wed, Sep 22, 2004 at 09:20:53PM +0000, Daniela wrote: > I'm looking for a tool to record everything that can be seen on a given X > display. Ideally, it should have support for limiting recording to a single > window, but that's not strictly necessary. About four years ago I used > Camtasia on Windoze for this, and I need something that produces a similar > result, preferably a neat small command line tool. > > If such a thing does not exist, can someone please give me a hint on how I > could do it myself in ASM/C/C++/shellscript/whatever? Is it as simple as > reading from a device file, or can I just put this feature into the X server? > > Regards, > Daniela > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"