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As the title says, I have an application that I need to run in a TTY. I also need to take a screenshot of it while it's running. How can I take a screenshot of an application running in a TTY without framebuffering enabled?

kos
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  • possible duplicate of [Can I take a screenshot of a virtual console?](http://askubuntu.com/questions/12208/can-i-take-a-screenshot-of-a-virtual-console) – muru Apr 21 '15 at 17:16
  • @muru I don't have framebuffering enabled, and I'm also having a hard time enabling it, actually I'm trying to do this in order to debug a problem that might even relate to framebuffering itself – kos Apr 21 '15 at 17:32
  • I suppose taking a photo is not an option? – muru Apr 21 '15 at 17:38
  • And what about http://askubuntu.com/questions/194291/how-to-take-screenshot-in-a-tty-terminal ? – muru Apr 21 '15 at 17:39
  • you can enable framebuffer like so: `echo "FRAMEBUFFER=y" | sudo tee /etc/initramfs-tools/conf.d/splash; sudo update-initramfs -u` reboot. – mchid Apr 21 '15 at 17:43
  • @muru Nope, `./configure`, `make install`, it compiles but doesn't add a `man` page, nor there are usage indications on the answer you linked or on the site, I have no idea of how to use it – kos Apr 21 '15 at 17:50
  • @mchid Thanks, at this point I'll give it a try after having answered this – kos Apr 21 '15 at 17:51

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You can use ttyrec

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install ttyrec

http://0xcc.net/ttyrec/index.html.en

There are a a few options, look for 

ttyrec -u

Which allows you to record to a zip file you can later unzip and should be able to play in a regular terminal later that you can easily take a screenshot of.

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