On Tue, 28 Oct 2008 11:32:16 -0700, Chuck Swiger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi-- > > On Oct 28, 2008, at 9:16 AM, zhenghua wang wrote: > > I wanna get some screenshots of my command-line-only system(8- > > current),how > > can I perform this? > > Thanks a lot,looking forward to your mail. > > See "man vidcontrol", as in: > > The following command will capture the contents of the first > virtual ter- > minal, and redirect the output to the shot.scr file: > > vidcontrol -p < /dev/ttyv0 > shot.scr
Another option would be to utilize the mouse edit buffer to capture screen content in "ASCII only", it requires a standard three button mouse and moused running correctly. Then you can select parts of the screen content or the whole screen using the left mouse button, then use Alt+PF2 (for example) to switch to another VT, login, start an editor (ee screen.txt) and then press the middle mouse button - the selected text will be put 1:1 into the file. Unelegang manual work, but sometimes useful (e. g. if you need screenshots for documentation purposes where a simple ASCII reproduction without colors or other attributes is needed). -- Polytropon >From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"