[Fwd: Re: Why don't we have a themed "Screen Locked" anymore?]

[Matthias Clasen]

On Wed, 2007-09-05 at 09:02 +0300, Nicu Buculei wrote:
> Máirín Duffy wrote:
> > Mark wrote:
> >>
> >> oke.. i've seen the new lock dialog a few times now and i have one
> >> request for it.
> >> i'm working on a wide screen notebook and the lock dialog looks a
> >> little to high... it would be good if you could make the lock dialog
> >> some smaller in height and keep the width the same.
> > 
> > Screenshot?? :) ??
> 
> Just out of curiosity (I don't have a wide screen): how can one take a 
> screenshot of the lock dialog (that is, without using a VM in a window)?
> 

There are several options, with increasing amounts of overhead:

- sleep 60; xwd -root > dump

- run in Xnest, e.g. gdmflexiserver

- run in a vm, eg. qemu-kvm -cdrom livecd.iso