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From: mdb@mva.cs.liv.ac.uk
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Subject: Dumping X-Window Screens
Message-ID: <1990Jul2.120845.10692@mva.cs.liv.ac.uk>
Date: 2 Jul 90 11:08:44 GMT
Organization: Computer Science CSMVAX, Liverpool University
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I am trying to collect a series of screen dumps to illustrate the
use of X-Windows on the HP 300 series of workstations.

I have been using xwd to produce screen dumps after a short delay to
set the screen up as I wish:

sleep 5; xwd -root -out temp

which works fine for applications, but I cannot get any dumps of
such items as window manager menus and the screen display as you
move or resize windows.  All that happens is that the dump waits until the
mouse button is released and so there is no menu being displayed.

I have tried running the window manager and the dump programs on
different workstations, but the same thing happens.


I am running hpux 6.5 on HP 318 workstations.  The same thing happens with 
both HP's version of X11R2 and the HP version of X11R4 compiled off the
MIT release tapes

Has anyone any ideas as to how I can get the dumps I want? 

Thanks,

Martin Beer,
Dept. of Computer Science,
University of Liverpool.

mdb@uk.ac.liv.cs.mva