making screenshots - GDM, GNOME splash screen

[Ladislav Bodnar]

On Saturday 16 October 2004 02:02, Jindřich Pozlovský wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> First: Ubuntu is really nice distro! :)
>
> I want show my friends some screenshots of "ubuntu in action" (using
> czech language), but I dont know how to make screenshots of login
> screen (GDM) and Gnome splash screen. Does anybody know?

Not sure about the GNOME splash screen, but you can take a screenshot of 
the GDM login screen by executing this from a virtual terminal, say vt2 
(CTRL+ALT+F2):

chvt 7 ; sleep 5 ; XAUTHORITY=/var/lib/gdm/:0.Xauth DISPLAY=:0.0 sudo 
import -window root gdm-screenshot.png; chvt 2

This will save the screenshot into your current directory under the name 
of gdm-screenshot.png. Needless to say, GDM should be running. The 
"import" command is part of ImageMagick, so you might have to install 
that first (apt-get install imagemagick).

Have fun!