[KLUG Members] Screenshot of Login Dialogue
Doc Rea
members@kalamazoolinux.org
Tue, 24 Sep 2002 21:33:40 +0000 (GMT)
Thanks for the explanation.
I was using Xnest and this seems to work as well. I think it's a bit too
much for folks starting out though. I don't know who would make beginning
Linux users go through all that....oh yeah...it's me ;}
However, I think I'll just remove that one requirement and have them
stick with ScreenShooter and a
hostname -v
just to make sure they named the box.
Thanks all.
On Tue, 24 Sep 2002, Buist Justin wrote:
> I thought it was kind of funny that I got asked the same question today. Then I realized it was a BIS 555 student at WMU who had the same question on one of their assignments :)... but I did come up with something.
>
> First, I'm running gdm/gnome here, and on Debian. Locations of files may change and such but it should be fairly simple to figure out where they are on your distro of choice.
>
> 1) I made sure that X was listening on tcp first. If you've got an "-nolisten tcp" being passed to X from gdm/xdm/kdm.conf then you might need to modify this and restart gdm/xdm/kdm.
> 2) Ctrl+alt+f1 to drop to a console login.
> 3) cp /var/lib/gdm/\:0.Xauth ~/.Xauthority
> 4) xwd | convert xpm:- jpg:login.jpg
> 5) alt+f7 back to the X session and mouse-click on the root window. I did try xwd -root | convert xpm:- jpg:login.jpg but that didn't want to fly. I got one garbled looking image from it. I have no explanation for that.
>
> 'convert' is part of the ImageMagick tools... I didn't want to try and figure out how to view a raw xwd dump.
>
> I very well might have "improperly" given myself permissions to connect to the X server, but it works. I'm not familiar with the nitty gritty details, so if somebody feels I should be doing it differently -- let me know.
>
> But... that pretty much does it.
>
> Justin Buist
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Doc Rea [mailto:rea@docrea.net]
> > Sent: Monday, September 23, 2002 7:53 PM
> > To: members@kalamazoolinux.org
> > Subject: [KLUG Members] Screenshot of Login Dialogue
> >
> >
> > Hi all:
> >
> > I've been taking screenshots of my desktop (Ximian Gnome) with the
> > ScreenShooter applet and it works great. However, what might be the
> > easiest way to take a screenshot of the Gnome or KDE login dialogue
> > before one even logs in?
> >
> > Is it possible using just one box and monitor?
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
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