Re: [screen-devel] screendump to png

[Rafal Maszkowski]

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.
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