[ale] screenshot question

Brian Pitts brian at polibyte.com
Thu Nov 11 00:01:15 EST 2010


On 11/10/2010 11:20 AM, Richard Bronosky wrote:
> I would suggest googling how to copy the screen buffer to a file from
> the command line in an alternate VT (assuming you are doing a
> graphical install). It won't be in a common image format but should be
> able to be converted on a more complete Linux install. Then you have
> to figure how to get the file off the machine.

'xwd 'is the right tool if it's installed. There is also 'import', a
part of imagemagick, but that's less likely to be a part of the install
environment.

-- 
All the best,
Brian Pitts


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