Posted by Toby Inkster on 08/30/05 00:11

Roy Schestowitz wrote:

> I am forced to use VNC (most typically remote desktop from Linux) for work,
> but I don't know if/how VNC helps in just grabbing a snapshot.

You run a VNC server on the machine that you want to capture images from,
then on your webserver create a cron job that uses a tool like vncrec
<http://www.sodan.org/~penny/vncrec/> to connect to the server and dump
the screen display into an image.

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