Re: screendump to png

Michael Garriss <[email protected]> Tue, 26 Jun 2007 00:38:29 -0600
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gnu.screen
Message-ID <[email protected]>
there hasn't been this much activity in the screen world in a  
minute.  come on guys, you can keep this shit going.  i know, i want  
a .tiff dump and i'll pay for it.

On Jun 26, 2007, at 12:21 AM, Rafal Maszkowski wrote:

> On Tue, Jun 26, 2007 at 01:41:42AM +0200, Johannes Weiner wrote:
>> On Mon, Jun 25, 2007 at 09:25:26PM +0200, Folkert van Heusden wrote:
>>> It would be nice if something got added to screen so that it can  
>>> write
>>> screendumps to a .png-file. As far as i know it can currently  
>>> only write
>>> ascii black&white dumps to a textfile.
>> I am running screen on framebuffer consoles and to catch the whole  
>> display, I
>> just `:exec fbdump shot.png'.
>
> I do not understand why this PNG dump is usefull for some, probably  
> few. The
> standard text dump is grepable vi-able, can be displayed easily  
> inside screen
> or e.g. included into HTML. In PNG version we lose many of these  
> features.
>
> R.
> -- 
> Jeżeli upadnie cywilizacja zachodnia, to będzie szansa na  
> odbudowę cywilizacji
>       chrześcijańskiej. (dr Stanisław Krajski, Radio Maryja, 10 X  
> 2001)
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