From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri May 10 07:29:13 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 68A9C325; Fri, 10 May 2013 07:29:13 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from guru@unixarea.de) Received: from ms16-1.1blu.de (ms16-1.1blu.de [89.202.0.34]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2D31F617; Fri, 10 May 2013 07:29:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [89.204.138.169] (helo=tiny.Sisis.de) by ms16-1.1blu.de with esmtpsa (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1UahlO-0005FY-Ub; Fri, 10 May 2013 09:29:11 +0200 Received: from tiny.Sisis.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by tiny.Sisis.de (8.14.5/8.14.3) with ESMTP id r4A7T888001457; Fri, 10 May 2013 09:29:08 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from guru@unixarea.de) Received: (from guru@localhost) by tiny.Sisis.de (8.14.5/8.14.3/Submit) id r4A7T7an001456; Fri, 10 May 2013 09:29:07 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from guru@unixarea.de) X-Authentication-Warning: tiny.Sisis.de: guru set sender to guru@unixarea.de using -f Date: Fri, 10 May 2013 09:29:07 +0200 From: Matthias Apitz To: Matthew Seaman Subject: Re: X11 screen grabber from cmd line Message-ID: <20130510072906.GA1446@tiny.Sisis.de> References: <20130509184144.GA1354@tiny.Sisis.de> <20130510080943.8ff99fa2.freebsd@edvax.de> <518CA081.3080308@freebsd.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <518CA081.3080308@freebsd.org> X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 10.0-CURRENT r235646 (i386) User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-Con-Id: 51246 X-Con-U: 0-guru X-Originating-IP: 89.204.138.169 Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list Reply-To: Matthias Apitz List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 10 May 2013 07:29:13 -0000 El día Friday, May 10, 2013 a las 08:23:45AM +0100, Matthew Seaman escribió: > You're somewhat missing the point here, I'm afraid. There are many > alternatives for grabbing screen shots from *within* an X session > itself. What the OP wants is a way to grab a screenshot of an X session > from a different, non-graphical terminal. > Exactly! But, more: the launched tool (which has access via $DISPLAY to the X server) must grab the screen *without* any further interaction on the screen (i.e. selecting a region or a mouse click is not an option); thanks for all the pointers, I will test and see what fits; matthias -- Sent from my FreeBSD netbook Matthias Apitz | - No system with backdoors like Apple/Android E-mail: guru@unixarea.de | - Never being an iSlave WWW: http://www.unixarea.de/ | - No proprietary attachments, no HTML/RTF in E-mail phone: +49-170-4527211 | - Respect for open standards