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Date: Thu, 2 Aug 2001 21:40:43 -0700 To: Silicon Valley Linux User Group <svlug@svlug.org> Subject: Re: [svlug] Screen Shots From: Rick Moen <rick@linuxmafia.com> begin Jerry M. Howell II quotation: > Does anyone have any idea of how I would be able to get a screenshot > of a command line console, a kde or gnome startup screen, and mabe a login > screen from the command line? Noted graphics expert that I am[1], I thought I'd take a whack at the above, too. (I'm assuming you're talking about command-line consoles inside the X11 graphical environment, rather than pure console mode. If not, Seth has addressed that, separately.) Try these: scrot http://linuxbrit.net/scrot/ E-ScreenShoot http://linuxbrit.net/epplets/ ImageMagick's "import" module http://www.imagemagick.org/ ScreenShooter for GNOME http://linuxbrit.net/screenshooter/ "scrot" is probably the one you want. Michael Jennings has convinced me of the merit of the imlib2 graphics-handling library, which can do some amazing, high-quality things. Pretty much all the utilities based on it are worth looking into, such as Tom Gilbert's "feh" utility, http://linuxbrit.net/feh/ . ImageMagick and add-ons such as ScreenShooter now seem a little behind the curve. Screen-capturing _login_ screens? As in xdm/kdm/gdm? That would be a neat trick. Looks like Seth's method ought to take care of that. And yeah, xwd(1) would do in a pinch, too. (Thanks, Felipe!) It comes with XFree86, so you should already have it. http://www.xfree86.org/4.1.0/xwd.1.html [1] As witness the dizzying array of attractive console command prompts in front of me, which, alas, you can't see. ===