From owner-freebsd-current Tue Dec 14 8:53:34 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk (nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk [193.237.89.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2EFD21526B for ; Tue, 14 Dec 1999 08:53:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nik@nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk) Received: (from nik@localhost) by nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk (8.9.3/8.9.3) id PAA74565 for freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG; Tue, 14 Dec 1999 15:02:02 GMT (envelope-from nik) Date: Tue, 14 Dec 1999 15:02:02 +0000 From: Nik Clayton To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: syscons extension: "propellers" Message-ID: <19991214150202.A73952@catkin.nothing-going-on.org> References: <199912141140.MAA02742@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.4i In-Reply-To: <199912141140.MAA02742@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de>; from Oliver Fromme on Tue, Dec 14, 1999 at 12:40:34PM +0100 Organization: FreeBSD Project Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, Dec 14, 1999 at 12:40:34PM +0100, Oliver Fromme wrote: > By the way, is there interest in giving the "Print Screen" > key an appropriate meaning, i.e. capturing a screenshot? > I have a few patches for this to implement that, I'd just > have to clean the code up and write a bit of documentation. > The GIF on the above webpage was created that way (along > with a small userland tool and netpbm). I'm just asking. > If nobody cares, I will not bother putting more time and > effort into this. Yes. I've got some patches somewhere for 2.2x syscons that implemented an ioctl for this, the idea being that these screenshots can then be used in the FAQ and Handbook as necessary. I didn't get around to sorting this out, which is why I never re-integrated them after the big syscons change that happened when -current became 3.0. N -- If you want to imagine the future, imagine a tennis shoe stamping on a penguin's face forever. --- with apologies to George Orwell To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message