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gvnccapture(1) VNC Tools gvnccapture(1)

NAME

gvnccapture - VNC screenshot capture

SYNOPSIS

gvnccapture [OPTION]... [HOST][:DISPLAY] FILENAME

DESCRIPTION

Capture a screenshot of the VNC desktop at HOST:DISPLAY saving to the image file FILENAME. If HOST is omitted it defaults to "localhost", if :DISPLAY is omitted, it defaults to ":1". FILENAME must end in a known image format extension (eg ".png", ".jpeg"). Supported options are

Display command line help information
Do not display information on the console when capturing the screenshot, with the exception of any password prompt.
Display verbose debugging information on the console

EXIT STATUS

The exit status is 0 upon successful screen capture, otherwise it is a non-zero integer

EXAMPLES

 # gvnccapture localhost:1 desktop.png
 Password:
 Connected to localhost:1
 Saved display to desktop.png

AUTHORS

Daniel P. Berrange <dan@berrange.com>

COPYRIGHT

Copyright (C) 2010 Daniel P. Berrange <dan@berrange.com>.

License LGPLv2+: GNU Lesser GPL version 2 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.

This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

SEE ALSO

vinagre(1)

2022-08-05 gtk-vnc-1.3.1