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diff --git a/system/snapscreenshot/NOTES.txt b/system/snapscreenshot/NOTES.txt deleted file mode 100644 index 3acfd2a9b9..0000000000 --- a/system/snapscreenshot/NOTES.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1,29 +0,0 @@ -Notes: - -snapscreenshot is *fast*, when compared to fbdump and fbcat. However, -the reason it's so fast is that it doesn't read the graphic content of -the framebuffer. Instead, the text content of the screen is read (from -the /dev/vcs* devices) and rendered in the current console font... which -is the current font of the console you executed snapscreenshot from, -*not* the font in the console you're taking a snapshot of! - -Also, custom fonts just don't work well with snapscreenshot. Depending -on the font, you may get an error (GIO_FONTX), a segmentation fault, -or else the resulting screenshot is garbled. - -Because /dev/vcs* is used, snapscreenshot does NOT work for taking -screenshots of software that actually uses the framebuffer for graphics, -e.g. fbpdf, feh, "mplayer -vo fbdev", "links -g -driver fb". For these, -use fbcat or fbdump instead. - -By default, the text on all the consoles ends up in the output image. To -take a shot of only one console, use a command like: - -# snapscreenshot --firstwin 1 -c1 -x1 > shot.tga - -...or use this: - -# snapscreenshot.cur > shot.tgz - -The snapscreenshot.cur script was written by the SlackBuild author, -and is not part of snapscreenshot itself. |