Screen Grab Utility

[Ian Darwin]

Ricky wrote:
> There's a screen grab utility on your Neo (at least on the more recent 
> builds) that I found by reading through the build tree.  It's at 
> /usr/bin/fbgrab.  It might be useful for showing off screen images to 
> your friends or for submitting bugs.
> 
> To grab the current screen image, just ssh over and run "fbgrab 
> filename.png".  The home page for this utility is at 
> http://hem.bredband.net/gmogmo/fbgrab/ 
> <http://hem.bredband.net/gmogmo/fbgrab/>.  I'm not sure how or where 
> this should be documented in the wiki.

There's another way which I find more useful, since I usually want the 
screenshots on my desktop, not on the phone (OK, so it saves having to 
scp them, big deal). But here it is:

	start a terminal on the phone (next command must be done locally)
	give the command: xhost +YourDesktopIP

	then from the desktop, just use most any screen grab program
	(I use kscreenshot) with the "-display phone:0" argument.

	So the program is running on the desktop, but its
	interactions with X will be with the X server on the phone.

This way when I "Save", it saves it on my desktop (even though the save 
dialog pops up on the phone - remote X is a miracle but sometimes a 
mindblower too).

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BTW, if you do want to scp, and you have an SSH session running too,
define an entry like
192.168.0.202   phone openmoko gadget fic-gta01

in your desktop's /etc/hosts. Then you can copy-and-paste the
hostname (from the terminal's prompt) *and the colon and the directory* 
and use it directly in an scp, for example, I am ssh'd in:

root at fic-gta01:/media/ram$ pwd
/media/ram
root at fic-gta01:/media/ram$
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ --- copy this (up to but not including the $) 


To scp a file there, use something like

scp MyHeartWillGoOn.mp3 (PASTE)<enter>

and it will copy the file from your desktop to the same directory
that your ssh is in. Same trick works copying files "up" too.
Just a little timesaver!

> Also - if you are interested in how the GUI / Window Manager starts up, 
> I've tried to start documenting it at 
> http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Window_Manager_Startup

That was you? Hey, useful! Thanks.