xtv(1x)

xtv1x

Grabs the screen of a remote x display

Usage

xtv [options]

Overview

xtv grabs the screen of a remote X display to which you have access. It can then continual refresh that screen grab, making a "TV" out of that display.

Options

-h

Prints out the usage

-s refresh_timeout

How often to update the screen grab.

-d display

The display to grab the screen from.

Releases

Unchanged in 3 releases since Debian 3.1 (Sarge).

  1. 3.1–5.0

Bugs

You can't grab the screen from a display of differing bit-depth. Due to the nature of X and what not, this would be particularly difficult to fix.

Author

[email protected]

This manual page was written by Jay Kominek <[email protected]>, for Debian.

From xtv 1.1-9 in Debian 5.0 (Lenny). Parsed by carta from the page's man source.