Hi All,
I have run into a rather odd problem. I simply want to be able to dump the screen buffer from gnome-terminal like I can from a virtual terminal with screendump. It turns out it is not so simple.
After discovering I could not use screendump for say, /dev/pts/0, my first inclination was to redirect the command using (command >file 2>&1). Because the program dynamically updated the screen the file grew quickly and was full of command codes and just garbled in general. Using sed or grep did not help to keep it all straight. The tee utility did not help either.
Does anyone know of a way to simply dump the contents of a gnome-terminal into a text file?
arrrg!!

You could try a utility called 'script'. Once the 'script' command is started it dumps all input and output from the current terminal to a file called typescript. Use Ctrl-D to end the session.

I tried it just in case but it does the same thing as tee. What I need is something to capture the buffer after the program is run.
I am looking into <sys/ioctl.h> now to see if this will do what I want. Something to do with the video buffer. should be "fun"