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Swagman
November 16th, 2008, 07:51 PM
Take a screengrab from the dos prompt ?

I'm not talking about terminal /Konsole but ctrl + alt + F2 then login.
Yes I want to take a screeny of that text screen !!

If peeps press that combination and cant get back then press ctrl + alt + F7

Its bugging me thats all.

diablo75
November 16th, 2008, 08:05 PM
You should probably install Ubuntu inside Virtualbox and then take a screenshot.

Swagman
November 16th, 2008, 08:18 PM
Two instances of ubuntu running ?

There must be an easier way .... One that doesn't involve a camera as well ?

voteforpedro36
November 16th, 2008, 08:19 PM
First, dos prompt? Lol, its a tty.

And second, search Synaptic. Maybe scrot can do it.

Swagman
November 16th, 2008, 08:27 PM
Ta

Will do

+ Thanks

Phenax
November 16th, 2008, 08:31 PM
fbgrab if you have a framebuffer on the tty

Swagman
November 16th, 2008, 08:34 PM
Nah... Not working

I get Giblib error Cant open X server. It *is* running yeah ? Message.

Oh well.. I'll put that down to a phailZ on my part.

sirjoebob
November 16th, 2008, 09:06 PM
Why dont you just run whatever it is in a terminal in the graphical view?

elmer_42
November 16th, 2008, 09:21 PM
He probably wants to take a picture of his text login. The only way I have seen it done (http://www.russ.co.il/images/fbshot.png) is with fbgrab.

Swagman
November 16th, 2008, 10:34 PM
He probably wants to take a picture of his text login. The only way I have seen it done (http://www.russ.co.il/images/fbshot.png) is with fbgrab.

Bingo

I installed fbgrab but it required the usual eleventy billion parameters that I can't be arsed to go lookup just to do something that's not really important.

+ thanks for the fbgrab recommendation anyway

FuturePilot
November 16th, 2008, 11:16 PM
Bingo

I installed fbgrab but it required the usual eleventy billion parameters that I can't be arsed to go lookup just to do something that's not really important.

+ thanks for the fbgrab recommendation anyway

To get a simple screenshot with fbgrab you really don't need to use any parameters.

fbgrab filename.png
should do the trick.