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From: klong@wilkins.bcm.tmc.edu (Kevin Long)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Delayed screen snapshots
Keywords: X screen snapshot
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Date: 16 Mar 90 17:53:15 GMT
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I need something to take a snap shot of a region of my screen, but delay
doing it for enough time for me to bring up a pop-up menu.

Sun has a fairly buggy but interesting program called "snapshot", which
only runs on a Sun w/OpenWindows.  It lets you sweep out the region to
be snapped, similar to xwd, but can delay taking the snapshot for a few
seconds.  The delay gives the user time to bring up a pop-up menu, etc, to 
be included in the screen snapshot.  Very useful.

Is there something like xwd that would let me specify the window id
to be dumped instead of having me click on the window?  I'm thinking
that I could bring up the pop-up menu on display A, and then from display
B run xwd -display A:0.0 -window 0x8000, where 0x8000 is the root window.

Other ideas/suggestions?  I'll repost what I learn.

Regards,
	Kevin Long
	Baylor College of Medicine
	klong@bcm.tmc.edu