<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> H.S. wrote: <blockquote cite="mid:hd7kgv$2n9$1@ger.gmane.org" type="cite"> <pre wrap="">dean wrote: </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">Hello Ubuntu Users, I want to take a screenshot of a remote machine without the use of VNC. I have SSH setup so I can access the machine. But how do I go about taking a desktop screenshot on a remote machine in ssh? Best Regards, Dean </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""> Does this help: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://wiki.debian.org/ScreenShots">http://wiki.debian.org/ScreenShots</a> </pre> </blockquote> <tt>I tried the command line approach as you stated and got the following ┌( insanity @ insanity-desktop )─( 11:30am -:- 11/09 ) └( /home/insanity )·> sleep 5; xwd -root | convert - capture.png xwd: unable to open display '' convert: missing an image filename `capture.png' @ convert.c/ConvertImageCommand/2775. </tt> </body> </html>