[Gllug] Screen Capture

[Sean Burlington]

On Tuesday 12 February 2002 5:17 pm, Darran D. Rimron-Molloy wrote:
> > 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
>
> 	-D

I get ...
cat: /dev/fb: No such device
ll /dev/fb
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root            3 Jan 23 22:57 /dev/fb -> fb0
ll /dev/fb0
crw-------    1 sean     root      29,   0 Aug 30 21:30 /dev/fb0
cat /dev/fb0 > /tmp/afile
cat: /dev/fb0: No such device


:(

and that sounds like a neat trick .. one of those 'come in handy' types ...

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Sean

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