Date: Thu, 9 May 2013 17:39:03 -0400 From: "illoai@gmail.com" <illoai@gmail.com> To: Matthias Apitz <guru@unixarea.de>, "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: X11 screen grabber from cmd line Message-ID: <CAHHBGkqeH2652erui6Vp%2BB26WUFzVEdKrLXEMEWw5QG1=SE3Aw@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <CAHHBGkrQC-QkFN2FPoDp3gYW9YnTMkgrq8i9F=R-ZBVfL2Yr=w@mail.gmail.com> References: <20130509184144.GA1354@tiny.Sisis.de> <CAHHBGkrQC-QkFN2FPoDp3gYW9YnTMkgrq8i9F=R-ZBVfL2Yr=w@mail.gmail.com>
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On 9 May 2013 17:33, illoai@gmail.com <illoai@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 9 May 2013 14:41, Matthias Apitz <guru@unixarea.de> wrote:
>
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> Do we have something in the ports which could do a screen shoot of
>> $DISPLAY, but
>> from the cmd line of an alpha console, and save it as PNG or JPEG?
>> Thx
>>
>> matthias
>>
>
> I use a simple script:
> > cat scripts/screenshot
> #!/bin/sh
> xwd -root | xwdtopnm | pnmtopng > screenshot_${1}.png
>
> which uses x11/xwd & graphics/netpbm
>
> --
> --
>
I just realised you might mean the text console, in which case
ignore that. Look at the -p & -P options to vidcontrol(1).
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