[Gllug] Screen Capture

[Richard Cottrill]

Just curious again (curious day). What would you get in /tmp/afile ?

I suppose you'd get a bitmap of some sort. I was wondering if it would be a
stream or just one frame? What format would it be? I mean how do you get to
look at it?

Richard

> -----Original Message-----
> From: gllug-admin at linux.co.uk [mailto:gllug-admin at linux.co.uk]On Behalf
> Of Darran D. Rimron-Molloy
> Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2002 5:18 PM
> To: gllug at linux.co.uk
> Subject: RE: [Gllug] Screen Capture
>
>
> > you can still do screen grabs (unlike in windows) - but you
> > have to use the DVD software to do it
>
> Or snaffle it out of the video buffer itself.
>
> cat /dev/fb > /tmp/afile
>
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