Date: Sat, 5 Jun 2004 17:22:50 +0800 (CST) From: =?iso-8859-1?q?Stephen=20Liu?= <satimis@yahoo.com> To: Randy Pratt <rpratt1950@earthlink.net>, "Andrew L. Gould" <algould@datawok.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How to make a screenshot? Message-ID: <20040605092250.7138.qmail@web40303.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20040604214149.082b2831.rpratt1950@earthlink.net>
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Hi Randy, FreeBSD 5.2 > vidcontrol -p < /dev/ttyv0 > shot.scr with the above command a file 'shot.scr' was created. But I have no program to view it. # pkg_info | grep scr2txt # pkg_info | grep scr2png # pkg_info | grep -w xv all no printout # cd /usr/ports # make search name=scr2txt Port: scr2txt-1.1 Path: /usr/ports/textproc/scr2txt Info: Converts the output of "vidcontrol -p" to text # make search name=scr2png Port: scr2png-1.1_4 Path: /usr/ports/graphics/scr2png Info: Converts the output of "vidcontrol -p" to PNG # make search name=xv | grep -w xv Port: xv-3.10a_3 Path: /usr/ports/graphics/xv Kindly advise Whether I have to install either of the above program to read shot.scr? > The following command will dump contents of the > fourth virtual > terminal to the standard output in the human > readable format: > > vidcontrol -P < /dev/ttyv3 On KDE desktop Konsole window # vidcontrol -P < /dev/ttyv3 no graphic image displayed (tried both -P and -p) Besides I have to 'su' to use 'vidcontrol' B.R. Stephen Liu > The .scr images can be manipulated with > textproc/scr2txt and > graphics/scr2png. The man pages for both describe > their usage. > > These are the tools that are used to produce the > screenshots of > the console and Sysinstall in the Handbook. > > For screenshots in XFree86, I find that graphics/xv > does the job > quite nicely without a lot of fuss. > > Best regards, > > Randy _______________________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com.hk address at http://mail.english.yahoo.com.hk
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