Re: Screenshot utility for Debian?

[Remco van de Meent <remco@debian.org>]

Branden Robinson wrote:
> But how about getting screenshots of VC's?  Apparently no such tool
> already exists.
> 
> What would it take to write one?  Root privileges, or can it be
> implemented in userspace?

If you're referring to textmode virtual consoles, I'd say you should be able
to do it in userspace. 

In a sense, gpm is some sort of screen-capture utility, so I think that code
could be quite useful when writing a complete capture utility for textmode.
And gpm doesn't need root-privileges.


bye,
 -Remco