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BerndS

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How To Create A Screenshot In Png Or Gif Format
« on: March 27, 2007, 02:01:07 pm »
Hi,

I know that I can create screenshot from the command line in pdaxrom 1.1.0beta3 using xwd but unfortunately xwd writes the screenshot in a not so common format.

Is it possible to create the screenshot in png format with xwd?

Searching the web I only found solutions with some converting programs (convert, xwdtopnm, etc) which are not installed by defaultin pdaxrom.

Until now I converted the xwd file with GIMP - but I prefer to create the screenshot in a "normal" format without converting

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« Reply #1 on: March 27, 2007, 02:16:40 pm »
Use Scrot. It depends on a few things, but I'm not entirely sure what they are. I believe the list is something like this:

libpng
imlib2
giblib
libungif

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« Reply #2 on: March 27, 2007, 02:35:55 pm »
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Use Scrot.

Works perfect, thanks

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It depends on a few things, but I'm not entirely sure what they are. I believe the list is something like this:

libpng
imlib2
giblib
libungif

It worked out of the box (I'm using weeXpc wich is a customized version of pdaXrom)

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« Reply #3 on: March 27, 2007, 02:42:40 pm »
Did you try gsnapshot which is gtk2-based screen capture program.

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« Reply #4 on: March 27, 2007, 03:02:36 pm »
I use meanie's screencap tool. It puts a *.png file on the SD card and has a 10 second delay built in.
You can find it on meanie's pdaxrom feed at tyrannozaurus
screencap_0.3_armv5tel.ipk
scrot_0.8_armv5tel.ipk
giblib_1.2.4_armv5tel.ipk
imlib2_1.2.2_armv5tel.ipk
libpng
libungif
for sound
esound_0.2.34_armv5tel.ipk
audiofile_0.2.6_armv5tel.ipk

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screencap will allow you to easily take a screendump.
It uses scrot if installed, otherwise falls back to using xwd.
It also plays a sound file and mimics the behaviour of the screencap tool in Sharp ROM.
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« Reply #5 on: March 27, 2007, 05:11:15 pm »
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Works perfect, thanks

It worked out of the box (I'm using weeXpc wich is a customized version of pdaXrom)
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Hello Bernd,

weeXpc contains the XScreenshot tool which actually uses scrot. It lets you set the number of screenshots in a series and the delay between the screenshots (or, when taking only one screenshot, the delay before the first one).
Screenshots are saved on the SD card in Documents/screenshots.

Via Utilities / Panel you can also place the XScreenshot icon into the panel for quick access.

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« Reply #6 on: March 27, 2007, 05:43:41 pm »
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weeXpc contains the XScreenshot tool which actually uses scrot.

Ooops, yes. I forgot the "ipkg status" before installing the scrot ipkg again ..

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