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| author | B. Watson <yalhcru@gmail.com> | 2017-03-24 17:35:21 -0400 |
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| committer | David Spencer <idlemoor@slackbuilds.org> | 2017-03-26 02:15:17 +0100 |
| commit | 0208372e56d8eceac8d42b7ffd193c748a867280 (patch) | |
| tree | b5c8eea6ec45d02a00e943682ab02fa0cd4773b7 /misc/fbdump/README | |
| parent | a90a23fa4ad4c775db726859ec6a72c04321f0ea (diff) | |
misc/fbdump: Updated for version 0.4.2, new maintainer.
Signed-off-by: B. Watson <yalhcru@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David Spencer <idlemoor@slackbuilds.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'misc/fbdump/README')
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1 files changed, 9 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/misc/fbdump/README b/misc/fbdump/README index 1840f205929a3..c7cd539bb1fa5 100644 --- a/misc/fbdump/README +++ b/misc/fbdump/README @@ -1,8 +1,15 @@ +fbdump (captures the visible portion of framebuffer to stdout) + 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' +To get a popular image format, issue a command like: + + fbdump | pnmtopng > shot.png + +Note: fbdump is rather slow on modern systems with high-resolution +framebuffers at 32-bit color depth. On the maintainer's system, it takes +8 seconds to dump a 1920x1080x32 framebuffer. Be patient. |