Is there a way for me to take a screenshot in a virtual console?
Best Answer
There's an application called fbgrab provided by the fbcat package that (as the name might suggest) grabs a shot of the current framebuffer. This might not work on newer KMS setups.
sudo apt-get install fbcat
fbgrab screenshot.png
If that fails, you could always use a VM in VirtualBox.
If you want to take a picture of another TTY, fbgrab takes a -c N argument (where N is replaced with the /dev/ttyN you're using).
Best Answer
There's an application called
fbgrab
provided by thefbcat
package that (as the name might suggest) grabs a shot of the current framebuffer. This might not work on newer KMS setups.If that fails, you could always use a VM in VirtualBox.
If you want to take a picture of another TTY,
fbgrab
takes a-c N
argument (whereN
is replaced with the/dev/ttyN
you're using).So if you wanted tty1: