[GLLUG] Grabbing terminal screenshots

[Scott Harrison]

> This brings me to a question: suppose I have a box with OpenBSD installed and I want to install squidGuard  and, of course, it is done from the command line.  I need to get screenshots for documentation purposes.  Is there a program for grabbing terminal screenshots?

xwd

The man page is pretty good.

Usually what I do is:

[prompt %] sleep 5; xwd > snapshot.xwd

Then I bring the X-window I want to the foreground and,
after the beep, (the cursor turns to a plus sign), I click
on the menu bar with the left mouse button.

As others are leaping to their keyboard to point out
right now, you can also specify whatever X-window you
want from the command line using the "-name" option.

To convert .xwd graphics format to something better (like .png),
ImageMagick is one such tool ("convert snapshot.xwd snapshot.png").

Regards,
Scott

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Scott Harrison <harris41 at msu.edu>
Michigan State University