How to make a screenshot

[Yorick Moko]

gpe-scap is by for the easiest way I know of;
you could also use x11-vnc viewer to take a screenshot
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On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 1:14 AM, William Kenworthy <billk at iinet.net.au>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
>
>
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