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I think I would fire up X and record an xterm window (using ffmpeg or some such).
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Ah, going through my old notes, after that, one has to run scr2png.
Just tested on FreeBSD. Code:
vidcontrol -p < /dev/ttyv1 > screen.scr scr2png < screen.scr>screen.png Again, don't know if OpenBSD has the same ability, will possibly put on a VM or laptop later to test. Last edited by ocicat; 6th October 2016 at 02:36 PM. Reason: Add missing [/code] tag. |
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Yes, scrot is a simple screen capture utility which can capture xterm(1) output. I do not know if this entirely meets fvgit's needs or not, but perhaps it needs to be mentioned.
Having said that, if capturing all POST output (which may exceed what is displayed on a single screen...) is important, I would suggest connecting a serial cable to a second OpenBSD system & saving all output through cu(1) & script(1). |
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Thanks for all the suggestions!
The idea was to find out if it's possible to take screencaptures of just the text console. That is the exact screen contents as they appear without X11. Basically what scottro described for FreeBSD in his posts above. Capturing an xterm-Window is trivial, even the base-system includes that functionality with xwd(1). I'm using it with great success to snap pictures of my xdm-setups for later use. I have even experimented with an fvwm-config where I can automatically e-mail window screenshots with a mouse-click: press button, enter email-address & confirm. And off it goes... Works like a charm on a simple base-install. Image format conversion would still need additional software like xv, of course. Cool nonetheless. Scrot looks interesting, I will need to evaluate it. |
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