[X-Unix] screencapture doesn't capture 2nd monitor
TjL
luomat at gmail.com
Mon Aug 6 11:12:03 PDT 2007
What I am trying to accomplish:
Take full-screen screenshots at a timed interval (using cron)
It's working, partly. The screenshots are taken at a timed interval.
Except that it is only capturing ONE of my two monitors (I have a
Macbook + external)
Looking at the man page (excerpt below) makes it sound like the
default should be to capture both monitors unless you use the -m flag
NAME
screencapture -- capture and manipulate clipboard contents
SYNOPSIS
screencapture [-SWcimswx] file
DESCRIPTION
The screencapture utility is not very well documented to date.
A list of
options follows.
...
-i Capture screen interactively, by selection or window.
The con-
trol key will cause the screen shot to go to the
clipboard. The
space key will toggle between mouse selection and
window selec-
tion modes. The escape key will cancel the interactive
screen
shot.
-m Only capture the main monitor, undefined if -i is set.
So there's no way to tell it "Capture both monitors" because it seems
to be setup to do that by default.
Except that it doesn't work for me.
Anyone have any other ideas?
TjL
ps - I wrote a little shell script here that I am calling via cron
http://tj.tntluoma.com/files/take-full-screenshots.sh
which lets me easily toggle what format the screenshots are in and
saves them all in a specific place
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