Taking a desktop screenshot remotely

[Steven Susbauer]

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On 11/08/2009 06:33 PM, dean wrote:
> Also on a quicknote when trying to use scrot I get
> 
> scrot
> giblib error: Can't open X display. It *is* running, yeah?
> 
> It seems it wants me to do an X11 forward, but doing this will take a
> screenshot of the computer I am currently using locally.
> 
> Any other ideas?
> 

Try manually defining the DISPLAY variable, generally it is :0.0
(DISPLAY=":0.0")
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