rob@redcloud.ucar.edu (Robert P. Montgomery) (05/16/89)
We have a DECstation 3100 running ULTRIX, and would like to use something similar to 'xwd' of the Athena widget set to dump a portion of the screen to an X11 file. Unfortunately, our xwd always selects the whole root window. Does anyone have a way to dump just a portion of the screen (i.e., an application window) to X11 XWD format? Thanks in advance, Rob Montgomery rob@ncar.ucar.edu National Center for Atmospheric Research / \ / \ /\ P.O. Box 3000 Boulder, CO 80307-3000 / \ \ / \ Machine: (303) 494-5142 / \ \ \ ___ Office: (303) 497-1832 rob@ncar.ucar.edu / N C A R \| |
swick@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ralph R. Swick) (05/16/89)
> Date: 15 May 89 23:47:25 GMT > From: ncar!redcloud!rob@husc6.harvard.edu (Robert P. Montgomery) > > We have a DECstation 3100 running ULTRIX, >... > Unfortunately, our xwd always selects the whole root window. Does anyone > have a way to dump just a portion of the screen You need a better version of xwd (that doesn't get confused by the re-parenting window manager in DECwindows). Alternatively, if you know the window id of the application window, the -id option to xwd will produce the correct results.
hbrand@lll-crg.llnl.gov (Hal Brand) (05/17/89)
In article <3233@ncar.ucar.edu> rob@redcloud.ucar.edu.UUCP (Robert P. Montgomery) writes: >We have a DECstation 3100 running ULTRIX, and would like to use something >similar to 'xwd' of the Athena widget set to dump a portion of the screen >to an X11 file. > >Unfortunately, our xwd always selects the whole root window. Does anyone >have a way to dump just a portion of the screen (i.e., an application window) >to X11 XWD format? I had the same problem with my VaxStation 2000 and Ultrix Workstation software V2.0 (running on Ultrix V3.0)! Somebody in UWS support indicated that dxwm (or maybe dxsession) "places a window over the whole screen" and this might interfere with xwd. Sure enough, when I went to uwm and dropped dxwm and dxsession, xwd acted properly - modulo what appears to be a bug in the Xqdsg server regarding XYPixmaps. I've given up on dxwm and dxsession and use uwm. I like uwm much better and it cuts memory usage from 75% to 50% on my 10 Mbyte VS2000! Hal Brand brand@hal.llnl.gov