Taking screenshot via ssh
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Mar 15, 202616199 viewsConfidence Score0%
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Is there a way to take a screenshot of what is on screen by being remotely logged on that machine with ssh? Vnc is no good, since AFAIK it cannot take ownership of an existing X session.
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Fix for: Taking screenshot via ssh
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You might want to try this: It will save the screenshot to screenshot.xwd which GIMP should be able to open. Check out the xwd man page here: http://linux.die.net/man/1/xwd
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