A long time ago I came across Sippey's blogsnaps, and
noted it as something which would be good to automate. Earlier
today
brad posted a quick way to take a
screenshot of a webpage, and it was pretty straightforward to
expand it in
The result is webshot, which requires ImageMagick and Xvnc. If someone has a better idea how to do what I ended up using xwininfo for, I'm all ears.
Have some sample output: slashdot, my LiveJournal, nyxie's LiveJournal, a Google search.
Also, vncserver frequently tries to start a full desktop environment. Since I use WindowMaker over VNC for its simplicity, I notice that its buttons show up in the screenshot. This can be fixed by -suprise- not running a window manager. Unfortunately, the stock vncserver script doesn't allow you to choose this. So to fix this you either need a hacked version of vncserver or you need to bypass it and call Xvnc directly.
I chose to create a version of vncserver that doesn't start any other programs past the X server (just cut out the stuff having to do with xstartup), and it works great. It'll probably make the whole process faster, because you don't have to wait for any other programs to start (many seconds for KDE or Gnome).
$BROWSER -CreateProfile Screenshotevery time.