Screen Shots?

[cwhitmore]

I've noticed in some of the How-To's on freebsddiary.com they have some nice screen shots of the terminal. I'd like to use the same type of screen shots. Do I need to install Gnome or KDE to do that?

[gilinko]

That depends. If you are talking about the black boxes for example on this article (http://www.freebsddiary.org/smtp-headers-rewrite-auth.php), they aren't screen shots but html markup.

Kinda like this

This can be verified by that you can select the text, which isn't possible in a image file ;)

[fronclynne]

vidcontrol -p > outfile
kinda does, but it's just the text.

Besides grabbing a screenshot of a virtual machine in X, I'm at a loss.

[cwhitmore]

I found a way to display the screen (with black background), on Dan's website freebsddiary.org using the pre class="screen".

[speed]

1. vidcontrol -p </dev/ttyv0> screenshot.scr
2. scr2png <screenshot.scr> screenshot.png

[gilinko]

I found a way to display the screen (with black background), on Dan's website freebsddiary.org using the pre class="screen".

Just remember that you need the accompanying css definitions which you can find in the stylesheet, as class="screen" is css markup and not html markup

[quakerdoomer]

ksnapshot !!!!!!!!
I couldn't recollect the name so I had to do this :

http://files.myopera.com/quakerdoomer/blog/KDE4.2.2_FreeBSD_8.0-DEVEL_200902.jpg

http://files.myopera.com/quakerdoomer/blog/IMG_0510_.jpg

FreeBSD-8.0-CURRENT running KDE 4.2.2 :-)

[cwhitmore]

Thanks for the info quakerdoomer.

[LateNiteTV]

if youre not using kde, ksnapshot is probably going to pull in a bunch of kde stuff.

[Antti]

For X11 screenshots, you can use scrot (http://www.freshports.org/graphics/scrot/)

[LateNiteTV]

of if you have imagemagick installed you can do
import -window root whatever.png

[fronclynne]

xwd -root -out bacon_hero.whatever

[SPlissken]

Agree with scrot