[[!meta title="X screen shots from the console"]] [[!meta date="2011-03-24 19:10"]] [[!meta author="rohieb"]] [[!meta license="CC-BY-SA 3.0"]] I had to debug a machine that was behind a DSL-2000 connection, and had about 20 KB/s of upstream. For that, I needed to see what was going on on the X screen, but due to the low bandwidth (and a screen resolution of 1920×1080), VNC was about as fast as 2 frames per minute. But I found a [comparable replacement][0]: The [ImageMagick suite][1] has a program called `import` that allows you to dump the contents of the X screen to a image file. So I took a few screen shots from the console via `DISPLAY=:0 import -window root foo.png` and then copied the files to my machine. [0]: http://www.mysql-apache-php.com/website_screenshot.htm [1]: http://www.imagemagick.org/ [[!tag howto ImageMagick Linux VNC X X11 Xorg]]