From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Sep 15 0:24:22 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.labs.gr (nini.irc.gr [195.167.94.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9959637B405 for ; Sat, 15 Sep 2001 00:24:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 9924 invoked by uid 2003); 15 Sep 2001 07:24:14 -0000 Date: Sat, 15 Sep 2001 10:24:14 +0300 From: charon To: Craig R Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Console Screenshots Message-ID: <20010915102414.A9458@labs.gr> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from craigery13@hotmail.com on Fri, Sep 14, 2001 at 11:57:43PM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, Sep 14, 2001 at 11:57:43PM -0700, Craig R wrote: > Is there a way that I can take a screenshot of one of the virtual consoles? > I would like to be able to take full graphical screenshots, not just text. > Any help would be appreciated. Yes, of course, vidcontrol can do that. If you pass the proper device as standard input, it can grab virtual consoles even if they are not the active one. For instance I start mutt on ttyv0 (inside a screen) and then switch consoles to ttyv1 and type: % vidcontrol -p < /dev/ttyv0 > mutt.scr With the help of scr2png port you can convert this .scr file to a nice PNG image (for presenting on a web-page, etc). -giorgos To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message