I was wondering is there something out there for Solaris 7 for screen capture?

Also it would really help if there was some software out there that can record whats happens on the screen for like 10 seconds or how ever long I need it to.

I did a search but doesn't seem to be alot out there.

XV is a long established graphical tool that can do screen captures. XV works on Solaris.

You can ftp XV from here;

ftp://ftp.cis.upenn.edu/pub/xv/

More info on XV here:

http://www.trilon.com/xv/xv.html

There are others, including:

http://www.augrin.com/prod/ec/capture.html

You can find more in this Google search result:

http://www.google.com/search?q=solar...&start=10&sa=N

I guess it's my day to be contrarian.

xv is a great program, but the last revision was 3.10a, which is now eight (8) years old (though there have been patches since then for a new format or two).

I use ImageMagick, which can also do the rectangular captures and do most or all of the image processing you mention.

If you just want a whole screen dump, try xwd, which I believe is in the base X11 distribution. You can then do your image processing/conversion with xv, ImageMagick (components of which are scriptable, BTW), Gimp or whateversaround. Your laundry list of requirements looks more interactive, so postprocessing with Gimp may be your best choice.

As for capturing screen changes over time, if xwd in a shell script loop doesn't meet your needs (it is pretty limited), I'm at a loss.

If you just want to record a command line session you could use the 'script' command.

Tony... No I want to record whats going on with the screen. Like a video of whats happening on the screen.