On Tuesday 05 of February 2019 00:38:11 Felix Miata wrote: > Slávek Banko composed on 2019-02-04 23:02 (UTC+0100): > > Felix Miata wrote: > >> https://www.maketecheasier.com/take-screenshot-of-login-screen-linux > >>/ is the closest I have found to instructions to use ImageMagick to > >> get one, but tdm seems to be different from lightdm and gdm such > >> that I can't figure out what to change. I tried logging in and > >> grepping XAUTHORITY from set, but it apparently cannot be found > >> there. > >> > >> I want a fullscreen screenshot that has the integrated default > >> theme's menu expanded to show the selection of session types. Can > >> anyone here help? > > > > You can search in: /var/run/xauth/ > > I don't see any connection. e.g. in Stretch I see (only): > > /var/run/xauth/A:0-TZtcAa > > 44 binary bytes owned by root and containing string > "MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1". On openSUSE it's the same except for the last 6 > characters of the filename. How can that be translated to > > /var/lib/gdm/$DISPLAY.Xauth > or > /var/run/lightdm/root/$DISPLAY > > ??? > > Would it be simply > > /var/run/xauth/$DISPLAY > > or something else? > > I tried putting > > #! /bin/bash > chvt 7 > DISPLAY=:0 XAUTHORITY=/var/run/xauth/$DISPLAY xwd -root > > in the script, but the resulting output image is always 0 bytes, and > error messages: > > No protocol specified > xwd: unable to open display ':0' > > I tried on Tubuntu 18.04/14.1 with same result. First, for XAUTHORITY should be: XAUTHORITY=/var/run/xauth/A${DISPLAY}-* Second, I do not see in the man page that xwd would accept the environment variable XAUTHORITY or option like -auth or -xauth. Cheers -- Slávek --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: trinity-users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: trinity-users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Read list messages on the web archive: http://trinity-users.pearsoncomputing.net/ Please remember not to top-post: http://trinity.pearsoncomputing.net/mailing_lists/#top-posting
