Open SourceCreating Screenshots with SVGAlib

Creating Screenshots with SVGAlib

Jay Link
By Jay Link


SVGAlib (the Linux Super VGA Graphics Library) is a powerful, console-based library used to display graphics under Linux. It’s entirely separate from the X-Windowing System, and won’t work across a network. However, it compensates


Things are simplified considerably when using vgagl, as WIDTH, HEIGHT, and BYTESPERPIXELS are predefined. Here we’ll take a look at gl_getbox():

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Matan Ziv-Av, who maintains SVGAlib, has contributed this code, which uses vga_getscansegment(). Note that his function creates a ppm file, which is a plain-text dump of every pixel’s RGB values.

Here, he

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