Re: Screenshot of console?
Re: Screenshot of console?
- Subject: Re: Screenshot of console?
- From: Derick Centeno <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2005 12:33:31 -0400
Hi Pete:
Sometimes it's by meandering around and around that whatever one is
looking for gets "zeroed in" on. You mention a few things in passing
which could be, useful paths to a solution, I could be wrong as I was
before also.
First, (I like your comment on Unix being selective regarding who it's
friends are), bash has the easy facility called "set" which when
invoked from $ spills out all the variable environment settings it is
using for the terminal, or console you are working from. It may not be
the answer, but merely a step to it.
Second, you might want to reconsider running x11. Because in it there
exists a file called Xresources which itself can be opened with vim, vi
or emacs. I'll assume you know how to use them as you are using Darwin
to get this far in the first place. If you scroll down you'll find a
list of X resource entries which control how xdm appears. The one
useful to you could be Chooser*Command.font. It will spell out, in a
near English as a Unix based computer can get, what exactly the font is
which builds that client window.
AgentM's suggestion would work but I would cat the output to a file as
Terminal.app I believe is an Aqua based app. IF you output script into
either the default file it creates or another or you use some of the
ideas expressed in work Linux Programming Bible between pages 381-487
or other reference consider working entirely in emacs. You probably
could use vi/vim, but just from what you described it sounds you'll
need abilities to read hex tables and the like without hassles drawing
you away from your task.
You could cat what the terminal (in use by a user) or create one via
something called screen then collect it's streamin to a file which you
then open within emacs.
Any one of these ways would work, what will matter will be the goal to
which you are aiming. I'm not sure that the designers of Unix
developed these character based apps with pixel collection, analysis or
review in mind, what nearly 40-50 years ago? You may have to relegate
yourself to hex, and really like it.
Best of Luck....
On Jul 20, 2005, at 5:12 AM, Peter Seebach wrote:
In message <email@hidden>, Derick
Centeno write
s:
I did not think that your request was for anything as simple as a
screenshot of the desktop. It is always the simplest things that
befuddle us, or at least me.
Er, not the desktop.
The *text console*.
In short, I'm running neither X nor Aqua. I just have a prompt that
says
Darwin (bravo.example.com) (console)
login: zach
Password:
Last login: Mon Jul 18 16:59:14 from bravo.example.co
Welcome to Darwin!
You are using bash.
bravo:~ zach$ _
But it doesn't say it in the font my mail client uses; it uses it in a
font
compiled into the kernel somewhere. And I want a picture of that.
I'm getting here by entering ">console" as a username to
loginwindow.app. It
then reactivates the pseudo-text-mode console driver (I assume it's
really
a framebuffer with a lot of text-scribbling code) and runs getty.
-s
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