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[Solved] Raspberry Pi - How to take screenshot without XWindows running?!
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January 17, 2014 7:32 AM
While writing an article related to the RaspberryPi, I wanted to take a screenshot of ChameleonPi - which runs without XWindows. So the usual screenshot tools like scrot didn't work. So I had to divert to another tool, which actually took me a while to find.
Raspi2png does the trick but you'll need to
download and
compile it before you can use it:
git clone https://github.com/AndrewFromMelbourne/raspi2png.git
cd raspi2png
make
After compiling you can copy the binary (for example: sudo cp raspi2png /usr/local/bin/), after that simply call it by entering:
raspi2png
After that you'll a file called snapshot.png in the directory where you called raspi2png.
Note: Scrot can be installed as such:
sudo apt-get install scrot
