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root2

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Registered: 2012-11-09

Posts: 31

Saving bootchart PNG

Hello there.

After playing around a bit with my #! 10 box I bootchart'ed it again to see if there are any improvements.

Doing the usual "./pybootchartgui.py /var/log/bootchart.tgz" works fine as it should and displays a valid chart. But how do I save it without using screenshot tools (and as a PNG)? The PNG viewer window just gives me options to resize/rescale the image but no saving options as far as I've seen...

Am I missing something here or might bootchart2 be an better option?

Best regards and thank you for your answers.

shengchieh

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Registered: 2009-01-07

Posts: 617

Re: Saving bootchart PNG

Better option is to use GIMP.  Have openbox setting to open *.py files with GIMP.  Can someone else tell how to do this?
Alternatively open up GIMP.  Then use GIMP to open up the file.  I don't know about *tgz files.

Sheng-Chieh

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root2

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Registered: 2012-11-09

Posts: 31

Re: Saving bootchart PNG

Better option is to use GIMP.  Have openbox setting to open *.py files with GIMP.  Can someone else tell how to do this?
Alternatively open up GIMP.  Then use GIMP to open up the file.  I don't know about *tgz files.

Sheng-Chieh

Thank you for your input.

But I think I just didn't quite get your point...
You think of opening the .py file with GIMP? I don't know where the py file stores the created chart. Also a search for PNG files didn't bring any results.

If I'm totally wrong please correct my thoughts on this

Thanks a lot.

shengchieh

#! Die Hard

Registered: 2009-01-07

Posts: 617

Re: Saving bootchart PNG

Sorry I got mixed up about py files.

Can I assume you are using #! default PNG view, viewnoir?  If so, after you take a snapshot (graphics -> take screenshot) , do

file
-> open with
-> gimp

The use ctrl-shift-s to saved as whatever you want.

Sheng-Chieh

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root2

Member

Registered: 2012-11-09

Posts: 31

Re: Saving bootchart PNG

Sorry I got mixed up about py files.

Can I assume you are using #! default PNG view, viewnoir?  If so, after you take a snapshot (graphics -> take screenshot) , do

file
-> open with
-> gimp

The use ctrl-shift-s to saved as whatever you want.

Sheng-Chieh

Thanks for replying.

I'm just being presented with a generated image file when the py script runs out. So sadly I'm not sure which viewer it starts. I try to look it up when I'm at the machine again.

I think your way of doing a screenshot would be right, if the PNG produced and displayed would fit into one screen.
In my case the image has a big height value so I have to zoom out (shrink the image) a lot to get it displayed on the screen completely. When doing that it gets almost impossible to read any text on the image. I doubt that it's readable when taking a screenshot of the zoomed image...

Best way would be to directly get the py script to store the image instead of just displaying it...

Best regards.