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| author | Binh Nguyen <binhnguyen@fastmail.fm> | 2010-08-14 15:42:06 -0400 |
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| committer | dsomero <xgizzmo@slackbuilds.org> | 2010-08-14 15:42:06 -0400 |
| commit | ad71dc81c088e5d004562a4aaa1fea87c1ac58e1 (patch) | |
| tree | 1319d390c15dd5c538f3bb1903dc3704be03bedc /misc/fbdump/README | |
| parent | 5b744f8e8337c8f12196405eddea5c8bf83320a2 (diff) | |
misc/fbdump: Added (captures the visible portion of framebuffer)
Signed-off-by: dsomero <xgizzmo@slackbuilds.org>
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diff --git a/misc/fbdump/README b/misc/fbdump/README new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000..1840f205929a3 --- /dev/null +++ b/misc/fbdump/README @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +fbdump is a simple tool that captures the contents of the visible portion of +the Linux framebuffer device and writes it to the standard output as a PPM +file. In other words, it takes a screenshot of anything running on the +framebuffer. It currently has fairly complete support for packed-pixel +framebuffer types and also works with the VGA16 framebuffer driver. + +To get a popular image format, issue a command like +'fbdump | pnmtopng > shot.png' |