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Old 8th October 2018
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Originally Posted by GarryR View Post
Something I have all ways wondered is how to get a screen shot of the console window, before any xwindows or display manager has been started, like these, but these are on a VM , so I could take the screen shots from the host system.
How, if there is a way to do this on the host system ?
I don't think that's possible:
http://daemonforums.org/showthread.php?t=9993

You can do it on Linux via the framebuffer, IIRC. But not on OpenBSD.

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Originally Posted by Head_on_a_Stick View Post
I use this to take screenshots:
Code:
imlib2_grab scrot.png
`scrot` is bloat!
Imlib2? Bloaty McBloatface!

This works in base. No packages/ports required:
Code:
xwd -out screenschot.xwd
Portability is for twats.
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