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From: david@ics.COM (David B. Lewis)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Dumping a screen, including pop-ups
Summary: quick fix to xwd
Message-ID: <3215@ics.COM>
Date: 5 Oct 89 13:45:03 GMT
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Organization: Integrated Computer Solutions, Inc., Cambridge MA
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screen-dumping and xwd:
Someone described a problem with the SelectWindow() used by xwd being
unable to grab the pointer when it is already grabbed by a popup.
Seems to me that the quick fix is to modify xwd to take a -wholescreen
option; it could then get the rootwindow directly, without using SelectWindow. 
Dump is accomplished by using xwd after a sleep of sufficient time to set-up
the screen or by using from another machine the -display that is already there. 
We do something similar here.
-- 
David B. Lewis david@ics.com ics!david@buita.bu.edu david%ics.UUCP@buita.bu.edu

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