ScreenShots

Alastair G. Hogge agh at tpg.com.au
Sat Nov 13 01:00:02 GMT 2004


On Sat, 13 Nov 2004 11:04, Sean Murphy wrote:
> How does one take screen shots of the FreeBSD Install and Terminal?  I
> would like to make a guide specific to our location.
From man 1 vidcontrol

     The following command will capture the contents of the first virtual ter-
     minal, and redirect the output to the shot.scr file:

           vidcontrol -p < /dev/ttyv0 > shot.scr

Use /usr/ports/graphics/scr2png/ to convert the vidcontrol dump to a PNG file.

> Thanks
No worries
-Alastair


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