console copy , paste and screenshots

geletine · 02-09-2006, 02:23 PM

I am wanting to copy text from the console , not a terminal emulator, and also a screenshot, how do i got about it?

pljvaldez · 02-09-2006, 02:31 PM

I think in general, the way is to redirect the output to a file. For example ls -al > list.txt. As for screenshots, I've always used a digital camera...

RedShirt · 02-09-2006, 02:39 PM

Screenshot can be done with whatever screenie software you have.. .like ksnapshot(I think is the name) just type the command(program name) and --help, it will tell you have to force immediate screen shot, default settings rather than pulling up an x window.

I could tell you copy/paste in terminal emulator... but in true console, I don't know, never really tried.

pljvaldez · 02-09-2006, 02:50 PM

Can you take a snapshot of the console if there's no gui?

I found this link that's supposed to be "Screenshot for Linux text console", but haven't tried it out http://bisqwit.iki.fi/source/snapscr....html#download