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+fbdump is a simple tool that captures the contents of the visible portion of
+the Linux framebuffer device and writes it to the standard output as a PPM
+file. In other words, it takes a screenshot of anything running on the
+framebuffer. It currently has fairly complete support for packed-pixel
+framebuffer types and also works with the VGA16 framebuffer driver.
+
+To get a popular image format, issue a command like
+'fbdump | pnmtopng > shot.png'