Capture Screen

[HU Wen]

Hello, everybody!

I wonder if any body can tell me: in HP-UNIX 10.20 environment how I can capture the screen picture in a picture file in format JPEG or BMP etc? Maybe I should download a special software?

Thank you very much!

[Darrel Louis]

If you are using Reflection/X for instance you use ctrl+alt+printscreen or ctrl+printscreen
Depends on what you need

[Alex Glennie · Accepted solution]

several options here :

1. xwud & xwd : are used to create an X windows dump : see man pages : syntax : xwd -root -out etc and use xwud to display .

2. under CDE : use icon editor off main panel : see dtpad icon ..... gotot edit, Grab screen image ... format is in X bitmap i beleive.

3. Use XV or similar shareware utility to grab screen/window image and convert to desired format : see XV links using search facility top left.

[Alex Glennie]

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[Kenneth Platz]

Hu,

There are a couple of ways of capturing the screen or a portion of it.

First, you can use the "xwd" application, which captures a window into "xwd" format which can in turn be used by "Xwd" or other applicaitons such as "xv".

To capture a single window, run the command "xwd > capture.xwd". The cursor will turn into a crosshairs. Simply click on a single window, and it will dump the contents of that window to a file.

Alternatively, the command "xwd -root > capture.xwd" will capture the entire screen, and dump the output to a file.

The "xwud" command can be used to view the file on the screen, or you can use the following commands to attempt to print the screen to a printer:

xwd | xwd2ps | lp -opostscript
xwd | xwd2sb | pcltrans | lp -oraw

xwd2ps can be downloaded in source format from:
ftp://ftp.x.org/R5contrib/xwd2ps.tar.Z

Additionally the "xv" program (available from your local HP-UX porting and archive center) is capable of doing screen captures and writing the resulting file into a number of different formats, including BMP, JPEG, GIF, TIFF, and others.

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[mooi-kuan]

You may try this command if the file exist in your system,

/opt/screencapture/bin/capture

[Alex Glennie]

I think the capture command comes with the Mpower/Web product which is on the apps CD's ... but it would also work .

[Shannon Petry]

Someone else pointed our /opt/screencapture/bin/capture.
In hp-ux 11, it is moved to /opt/printscreen/bin/capture.
This program allows you to create images in JPG, GIF, BMP, XWD, TIF, XPM and XBM format from any of the following.
The whole screen, a selected region of the screen, a window, a window and it's children.

Before you download bunches, use what is there. If you do not have it installed, install the M/Power packages from the Applications CD's.

Regards,
Shannon

[Shannon Petry]

I too tried all of the tricks mentioned. I gave up and am using an Older PC with Linux on it for all monitoring. (see www.trinux.org) This small Linux distribution comes with all kinds of nice network monitoring and security tools.

Regards,
Shannon

[Bill Hassell]

If you are capturing the screen on an Xwindow box (ie, an HP-UX workstation or Xterminal), you can use xwd. There are lots of options including specifying the screen ID number. The output of xwd is a binary stream of numbers so redirect the result to a file.

Now get a copy of PBMplus (Portable BitMap Utilities) which converts just about everything bit-map into everything else. You can get precompiled software at the HP-UX porting centre: http://hpux.connect.org.uk/

Look for: netpbm