Re: [screen-devel] screendump to png

[Folkert van Heusden]

Hi,

Thanks for the reply.

> > 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 don't think that's really within the scope of what screen does. The
> standard way to do this, though, is to do a screenshot of the terminal
> window within which screen is running. Are you unable to do this?

Ah no, not always. Quite often I'm running screen directly on the
console without any X around it.
My idea of screen is to enable users to everything on a console (e.g.
multiple 'virtual terminals') which can be done via X, so that includes
screendumps (in color).


Folkert van Heusden

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