How can I take a screenshot of an application running in a TTY without framebuffering enabled?

Question

As the title says, I have an application that I need to run in a TTY. I also need to take a screenshot of it while it's running. How can I take a screenshot of an application running in a TTY without framebuffering enabled?

Answer 1

You can use ttyrec

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install ttyrec

http://0xcc.net/ttyrec/index.html.en

There are a a few options, look for

ttyrec -u

Which allows you to record to a zip file you can later unzip and should be able to play in a regular terminal later that you can easily take a screenshot of.