Raspberry Pi - How to take screenshot without XWindows running?! - Raspberry Pi https://www.tweaking4all.com/forum/raspberry-pi/raspberry-pi-how-to-take-screenshot-without-xwindows-running/ Tweaking4All.com Discussion Board en-US Tue, 09 Jun 2026 02:06:59 +0000 wpForo 60 Raspberry Pi - How to take screenshot without XWindows running?! https://www.tweaking4all.com/forum/raspberry-pi/raspberry-pi-how-to-take-screenshot-without-xwindows-running/#post-132 Fri, 17 Jan 2014 12:32:18 +0000 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
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