[mythtv-users] best way to take a screenshot?

[Michael T. Dean]

On 03/04/2006 11:48 PM, Jesse Guardiani wrote:
> What's the best way to take a screenshot of the frontend?
>
> I'm aware of the XV issues. I can handle that aspect. What
> I'm interested in are actual screenshot taking methods. I'd
> prefer not to install anything extra if possible (i.e. gimp).
>
> Are there tools that come with Xorg that I can use?
> (I'm running Gentoo)
>   

The only X tool for this is xwd (X Window dump)

xwd -root -out scrshot.xwd

(without -root, you have to click the window you want to dump or specify 
a window ID, but with it you get the entire screen).  Unfortunately, xwd 
uses a format that can be displayed with xwud, but isn't generally 
useful on its own.

So, you'll generally need another application to convert it to a useful 
format.  GIMP can read xwd files.  ImageMagick's convert can, too (with 
something like "convert scrshot.xwd scrshot.png".

So, if you're looking for a way to take screen shots on your Myth box 
with no additional software, but are willing to copy those shots to 
another box that has the additional software to do conversions, this 
should work well for you.

Mike