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   1 [[!meta title="X screen shots from the console"]]
   2 [[!meta date="2011-03-24 19:10"]]
   3 [[!meta author="rohieb"]]
   4 [[!meta license="CC-BY-SA 3.0"]]
   5
   6 I had to debug a machine that was behind a DSL-2000 connection, and had
   7 about 20 KB/s of upstream. For that, I needed to see what was going on
   8 on the X screen, but due to the low bandwidth (and a screen resolution
   9 of 1920×1080), VNC was about as fast as 2 frames per minute.
  10
  11 But I found a [comparable replacement][0]: The [ImageMagick suite][1]
  12 has a program called `import` that allows you to dump the contents of
  13 the X screen to a image file. So I took a few screen shots from the
  14 console via `DISPLAY=:0 import -window root foo.png` and then copied the
  15 files to my machine.
  16
  17 [0]: http://www.mysql-apache-php.com/website_screenshot.htm
  18 [1]: http://www.imagemagick.org/
  19
  20 [[!tag howto ImageMagick Linux VNC X X11 Xorg]]