Any software that can do X windows screen capture (with mouse cursor)

Rebs Guarina rebs.guarina at gmail.com
Wed Mar 19 16:30:27 UTC 2008


you could probably also use gvidcap/xvidcap and split the video to jpegs
using ffmpeg...(",)

On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 9:33 PM, Frank Shute <frank at shute.org.uk> wrote:

> On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 03:37:05PM -0700, Bill Campbell wrote:
> >
> > On Tue, Mar 18, 2008, Patrick Dung wrote:
> > >Hello
> > >
> > >As title, I have tried xwd, it can't capture mouse curosr.
> >
> > I'm not sure how a simple screen capture program would capture
> > the mouse cursor since they all ask that you either click on a
> > screen or select a rectangle from the entire screen.
> >
> > It seems to me that one would have to use some kind of video
> > screen capture from which one could select frames showing the
> > cursor as needed from working sessions.
>
> If you use xv (graphics/xv), install it, launch it, right click on the
> splash screen, there is a "Grab" button which when pressed can be
> configured to grab a window after a set time but unfortunately it
> doesn't grab the cursor.
>
> I guess you could always Gimp it in by grabbing pngs/gifs of the
> various cursors off the 'net.
>
> xv is quite a useful program for graphics that is worth installing.
> IMO.
>
> Imagemagik for batch processing, Gimp for drawing things from scratch
> and fancy effects, xv for quick "point & drool" transformations.
>
> --
>
>  Frank
>
>
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