Screenshot program for Linux text console(s)

snapscreenshot version 1.0.15
Copyright (C) 1992,2020 Bisqwit (http://iki.fi/bisqwit/)

Takes snapshot from your Linux console(s) and outputs a Targa file.
You can use convert(1) to convert the resulting image to various formats.

Usage: snapscreenshot [-hfb1cxV] > snap.tga

  -h, --help          Help
  -f, --fontwidth     Font width (8 or 9, default: 9)
  -b, --border        Border colour (0..15, default: 9)
  -1, --firstwin      Specify the index of first window
  -c, --num           Specify number of windows (default: 6)
  -x, --alongside     Specify number of windows horizontally (4)
  -V, --version       Version information

snapscreenshot has been written by Joel Yliluoma, a.k.a. Bisqwit,
and is distributed under the terms of the General Public License (GPL).

If you happen to see this program useful for you, I'd appreciate if you tell me :) Perhaps it would motivate me to enhance the program.

Q: I have 132x50 text mode with 8x8 font, and when I take a snapshot, it looks very wide and not tall... Why does snapscreenshot mess the ratio?
A: snapscreenshot doesn't save or even know about dot-per-inch ratios, and neither do most image display programs.
132x50 with 8x8 font means 1054x400 pixel resolution, and you clearly can see that 1054 is over two times 400.
So it really is wider than its tall. Your monitor just squashes the pixels horizontally.
If you want a regular 1.25 ratio image, you have to either squeeze it horizontally or stretch it vertically by using an image conversion program like Imagemagick.

GNU make is probably required.
The program only works in Linux (I don't know any other unix clones having /dev/vcs* -devices).

Downloading help

• Do not download everything - you only need one file (newest version for your platform)!
• Do not use download accelerators or you will be banned from this server before your download is complete!

Date (Y-md-Hi) acc        Size Name                
2019-1221-1048 r--       21695 snapscreenshot-1.0.15.tar.bz2
2019-1221-1048 r--       22719 snapscreenshot-1.0.15.tar.gz
2009-0831-1123 r--       23136 snapscreenshot-1.0.14.3.tar.bz2
2009-0831-1123 r--       24169 snapscreenshot-1.0.14.3.tar.gz
2003-0710-0931 r--       21301 snapscreenshot-1.0.14.2.tar.bz2
2003-0710-0931 r--        3212 patch-snapscreenshot-1.0.14.1-1.0.14.2.bz2
2003-0117-0116 r--       21062 snapscreenshot-1.0.14.1.tar.bz2
2003-0117-0116 r--        1368 patch-snapscreenshot-1.0.14-1.0.14.1.bz2
2002-1218-1155 r--       21035 snapscreenshot-1.0.14.tar.bz2
2002-1218-1155 r--        8382 patch-snapscreenshot-1.0.13.2-1.0.14.bz2
2002-1218-1155 r--       11573 patch-snapscreenshot-1.0.13-1.0.14.bz2
2002-1128-1101 r--       19339 snapscreenshot-1.0.13.2.tar.bz2
2002-1128-1101 r--        5555 patch-snapscreenshot-1.0.13.1-1.0.13.2.bz2
2002-0902-0112 r--        7277 patch-snapscreenshot-1.0.13-1.0.13.1.sh.bz2
2002-0902-0112 r--       21306 snapscreenshot-1.0.13.1.tar.bz2
2002-0902-0112 r--        7178 patch-snapscreenshot-1.0.13-1.0.13.1.bz2
2002-0514-1435 r--       18422 snapscreenshot-1.0.13.tar.bz2
2002-0514-1435 r--        4385 patch-snapscreenshot-1.0.12-1.0.13.bz2
2002-0331-0131 r--       16532 snapscreenshot-1.0.12.tar.bz2
2002-0331-0131 r--         618 patch-snapscreenshot-1.0.11-1.0.12.bz2
2002-0314-1012 r--       16516 snapscreenshot-1.0.11.tar.bz2
2002-0314-1012 r--        3110 patch-snapscreenshot-1.0.10-1.0.11.bz2
2002-0218-1118 r--       16713 snapscreenshot-1.0.10.rar
2002-0218-1118 r--       16403 snapscreenshot-1.0.10.tar.bz2
2001-1017-0134 r--       17449 snapscreenshot-1.0.10.zip
2002-0218-1118 r--       11198 patch-snapscreenshot-1.0.9-1.0.10.bz2
2001-0921-0235 r--        7779 snapscreenshot-1.0.9.rar
2001-0921-0235 r--        7853 snapscreenshot-1.0.9.tar.bz2
2001-0921-0235 r--        9441 snapscreenshot-1.0.9.zip
2001-0921-0235 r--        6059 patch-snapscreenshot-1.0.8-1.0.9.bz2
2000-0920-1224 r--        6248 snapscreenshot-1.0.8.rar
2000-0920-1224 r--        6273 snapscreenshot-1.0.8.tar.bz2
2000-0920-1224 r--        7698 snapscreenshot-1.0.8.zip
2000-0920-1224 r--        1780 patch-snapscreenshot-1.0.7-1.0.8.bz2
2000-0831-1348 r--        6075 snapscreenshot-1.0.7.rar
2000-0831-1348 r--        6109 snapscreenshot-1.0.7.tar.bz2
2000-0831-1348 r--        7521 snapscreenshot-1.0.7.zip
2000-0831-1348 r--        2083 patch-snapscreenshot-1.0.6-1.0.7.bz2
2000-0816-1547 r--         414 patch-snapscreenshot-1.0.5-1.0.6.bz2
2000-0816-1257 r--        5715 snapscreenshot-1.0.5.tar.bz2
2000-0816-1257 r--         727 patch-snapscreenshot-1.0.4-1.0.5.bz2
2000-0816-1248 r--        5606 snapscreenshot-1.0.4.tar.bz2
2000-0816-1248 r--        2643 patch-snapscreenshot-1.0.3-1.0.4.bz2
2000-0816-1230 r--        4940 snapscreenshot-1.0.3.tar.bz2
2000-0816-1230 r--        1047 patch-snapscreenshot-1.0.2-1.0.3.bz2
2000-0816-1217 r--        4504 snapscreenshot-1.0.2.tar.bz2
2000-0816-1217 r--         829 patch-snapscreenshot-1.0.1-1.0.2.bz2
2000-0816-1134 r--        4309 snapscreenshot-1.0.1.tar.bz2

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