On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 7:13 AM, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <ava...@gmail.com>wrote:
> I've read that on some Garmin units you can press a given button for a > set period of time to have it dump a screenshot to its SD card. But I > haven't found out how to do this for my Garmin GPSMAP 60CSx. > > Garmin has a utility called ximage which can do this, but I don't use > win32, it doesn't run under Wine and I would rather do this without > proprietary software anyway: > > http://www8.garmin.com/support/download_details.jsp?id=545 > > The device's manual doesn't specify any key combo. So is there any way > to retrieve a screenshot of its screen under *nix? > The new Garmin Oregon and Colorado units can take a screenshot by pressing the power button (if properly configured), but as far as I know, xImage is the only way to grab a screenshot from the older units. So, unless someone has reverse-engineered the protocol for extracting images (doubtful) and then written a *nix compatible utility, xImage is the only way you'll be able to do it. Karl
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