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spicy-snapshot

SPICY-SNAPSHOT(1)					      General Commands Manual						 SPICY-SNAPSHOT(1)

NAME

       spicy-snapshot - Spice screen-shot capture tool

SYNOPSIS

       spicy-snapshot	  [--uri=<uri>]    [-h, --host=<host>]	  [-p, --port=<port>]	 [-s, --secure-port=<port>]    [-w, --password=<password>]
       [-o, --out-file=<filename>] [--version] [-?, --help]

DESCRIPTION

       spicy-snapshot connects to Spice server and capture screen-shot to a ppm format file, the default file name is snappy.ppm

OPTIONS

       --uri= <uri>
	      Spice server uri.

       -h, --host=<host>
	      Spice server address.

       -p, --port=<port>
	      Spice server port

       -s, --secure-port=<port>
	      Spice server secure port

       -w, --password=<password>
	      Spice server password

       -o, --out-file=<filename>
	      Output file name (default snappy.ppm)

       --version
	      Display spicy-snapshot version

       -?, --help
	      Display help information

SEE ALSO

       spicec(1) spicy(1)

       Spice related documents can be found at http://www.spice-space.org/documentation.html

AUTHOR

       Spice project

       This manual page was written by Liang Guo <bluestonechina@gmail.com>, for the Debian project (and may be used  by  others).  Permission	is
       granted	to  copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by the Free
       Software Foundation; either version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

								  August 15, 2011						 SPICY-SNAPSHOT(1)

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