'Screen Shots on FreeBSD'

Screen Shots on FreeBSD

I have a nice little screen shot program. I give it a list of URL's and end up with a folder full of screen shots. It can take some time to get through a list as some pages are very slow loading.

The program works great except that it won't work in a minimized window. That means I have to set and watch all the websites go by. Boring and hard to get any work done.

I found the solution and its hidden in my two posts about remote desktops and tightvnc.

What I do is start the tightvnc server on my FreeBSD box. Then use the vncviewer to connect to it, it: vncviewer localhost:1

Since I can't get gnome to work on two sessions at once, I bring up kde; startkde. Now I start my screen shot program.

I minimize the vncviewer window and the screen shot program keeps going as the screen shot window is not minimized, only the window I am viewing that in.

tightvnc is quickly installed from the standard FreeBSD ports.

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