Re: How to make a screenshot
Ivo van den Maagdenberg writes: > How do I make a screenshot of an openmoko screen, without a photo > camera? import -window root -display :0 foo.png -- Esben Stien is b...@e s a http://www. s tn m irc://irc. b - i . e/%23contact sip:b0ef@ e e jid:b0ef@n n ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: How to make a screenshot
2009/12/9 William Kenworthy : > On Wed, 2009-12-09 at 00:16 +0100, Thomas Zimmermann wrote: >> Am Mittwoch 09 Dezember 2009 00:02:38 schrieb Ivo van den Maagdenberg: >> > Forgive me for asking one of those silly questions: >> > >> > How do I make a screenshot of an openmoko screen, without a photo camera? >> > > Alternative courtesy of Lowell Higley on Nov 28th: > > To make a poor man's screenshot from FR's terminal: > > sleep 5 ; cp /dev/fb0 screen.dump > > The "sleep 5" gives you time to switch to the screen you want to > shoot (or do remotely from an ssh session). You get a 4 MB > screen dump, I use the following command on the > desktop-PC to convert it to a png: > > fbgrab -f screen.dump -b 16 -h 640 -w 480 screen.png > The poor mans method has worked for me! Thanks. The Gpe-scap method sounds appealing, but currently suffering from a routing problem over wifi from gta02 to my network has held me back to actually install it. Will try later. ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: How to make a screenshot
gpe-scap is by for the easiest way I know of; you could also use x11-vnc viewer to take a screenshot y On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 1:14 AM, William Kenworthy wrote: > On Wed, 2009-12-09 at 00:16 +0100, Thomas Zimmermann wrote: > > Am Mittwoch 09 Dezember 2009 00:02:38 schrieb Ivo van den Maagdenberg: > > > Forgive me for asking one of those silly questions: > > > > > > How do I make a screenshot of an openmoko screen, without a photo > camera? > > > > > > > Install gpe-scap and call it over ssh to make a screenshot of the current > > screen. > > > Alternative courtesy of Lowell Higley on Nov 28th: > > To make a poor man's screenshot from FR's terminal: > >sleep 5 ; cp /dev/fb0 screen.dump > >The "sleep 5" gives you time to switch to the screen you want to >shoot (or do remotely from an ssh session). You get a 4 MB >screen dump, I use the following command on the >desktop-PC to convert it to a png: > >fbgrab -f screen.dump -b 16 -h 640 -w 480 screen.png > > > I installed fbgrab on my gentoo desktop - its in portage. > > Example: "http://wdk.dyndns.org/freerunner/screen.png"; > > BillK > > > ___ > Openmoko community mailing list > community@lists.openmoko.org > http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community > ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: How to make a screenshot
On Wed, 2009-12-09 at 00:16 +0100, Thomas Zimmermann wrote: > Am Mittwoch 09 Dezember 2009 00:02:38 schrieb Ivo van den Maagdenberg: > > Forgive me for asking one of those silly questions: > > > > How do I make a screenshot of an openmoko screen, without a photo camera? > > > > Install gpe-scap and call it over ssh to make a screenshot of the current > screen. > Alternative courtesy of Lowell Higley on Nov 28th: To make a poor man's screenshot from FR's terminal: sleep 5 ; cp /dev/fb0 screen.dump The "sleep 5" gives you time to switch to the screen you want to shoot (or do remotely from an ssh session). You get a 4 MB screen dump, I use the following command on the desktop-PC to convert it to a png: fbgrab -f screen.dump -b 16 -h 640 -w 480 screen.png I installed fbgrab on my gentoo desktop - its in portage. Example: "http://wdk.dyndns.org/freerunner/screen.png"; BillK ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: How to make a screenshot
Am Mittwoch 09 Dezember 2009 00:02:38 schrieb Ivo van den Maagdenberg: > Forgive me for asking one of those silly questions: > > How do I make a screenshot of an openmoko screen, without a photo camera? > Install gpe-scap and call it over ssh to make a screenshot of the current screen. ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
How to make a screenshot
Forgive me for asking one of those silly questions: How do I make a screenshot of an openmoko screen, without a photo camera? ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
