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# 1  
Old 02-04-2003
screen capture
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.
merlin
# 2  
Old 02-04-2003
XV
XV is a long established graphical tool that can do screen captures. XV works on Solaris.

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xv lets you do a large number of things (many of them actually useful), including, but not limited to, the following:

* display an image in a window on the screen
* display an image on the root window, in a variety of styles
* grab any rectangular portion of the screen and turn it into an image
* arbitrarily stretch, compress, rotate or flip the image
* crop or pad images
* view files as ASCII text or hexadecimal data
* magnify any portion of the image by any amount, up to the size of the screen
* determine pixel values and x,y coordinates in the image
* adjust image brightness and contrast with a gamma correction function
* apply different gamma functions to the Red, Green, and Blue color components, to correct for non-linear color response
* adjust global image saturation
* perform global hue remapping
* perform histogram equalization
* run a number of image-processing algorithms on any rectangular portion of the image
* edit an image's colormap
* reduce the number of colors in an image
* dither in color and b/w
* crop off solid borders automatically
* convert image formats
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
# 3  
Old 02-04-2003
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.
# 4  
Old 02-05-2003
If you just want to record a command line session you could use the 'script' command.
# 5  
Old 02-05-2003
Tony... No I want to record whats going on with the screen. Like a video of whats happening on the screen.
merlin
# 6  
Old 02-05-2003
In that case, you could direct your video output to a video recording device.
# 7  
Old 02-07-2003
In that case, you could direct your video output to a video recording device.

hey, i thought i have suggested him to use digital camera or something. not sure why my posting was removed. that is a good suggestion.
 
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