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Teixeira wrote:
>
> My question is, is there a way to do some screenshotting, 
> both graphical and text mode?

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imagemagick 
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imagemagick is a collection of tools and libraries for image manipulation.

To take a snapshot using Imagemagic: 
import -window root screenshot.png 

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xv 
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xv is another image manipulation program that can deal with almost all file 
formats. 
Example usage: 
xv -grabdelay 2 myimage.jpg 

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gimp 
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To grab an image of the screen or a program in Gimp: 
File -> Acquire -> Screen shot 

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Framebuffer Console 
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Use fbgrab to grab a screenshot in a framebuffer console. 
fbgrab filename.png 

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scrot 
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scrot is a small (66 kB) screen shot grabber based on imlib2. It has lots of 
options for autogenerating filenames, and can do fun stuff like taking 
screenshots of multiple displays and glueing them together.

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xwd 
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xwd (manual page) is a part of XFree, so chances are high you already have it 
installed. It can dump screenshots to .xwd files. This is not a common 
format. After taking a screenshot using xwd -root -out test.xwd the only 
programs I found capable of opening it were Gimp and xwud (manual page). 


xwd, imagemagick and xv are all available from Slackware 4.0.
You will also probably need to install the x-libs.tgz package 
from the BL3.

Cheers,
Steven










> 
> By the way, despite the fact of being a newbie, I'm a member of a brazilian
> Linux Community (www.vivaolinux.com.br) and I've posted there two articles
> concerning to BL3.
> The matter showed to raise the interest of many Linux enthusiasts, but they
> ask for screenshots.
> Thanks again
> Teixeira
> 
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