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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?

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  • possible duplicate of Can I take a screenshot of a virtual console?
    – muru
    Apr 21, 2015 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, 2015 at 17:32
  • I suppose taking a photo is not an option?
    – muru
    Apr 21, 2015 at 17:38
  • And what about askubuntu.com/questions/194291/… ?
    – muru
    Apr 21, 2015 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, 2015 at 17:43

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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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    Or use ttygif to convert directly to a GIF.
    – muru
    Apr 21, 2015 at 17:40

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