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From: stroyan@hpfcso.HP.COM (Mike Stroyan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: Dumping X-Window Screens
Message-ID: <7370168@hpfcso.HP.COM>
Date: 4 Jul 90 00:16:51 GMT
References: <1990Jul2.120845.10692@mva.cs.liv.ac.uk>
Organization: Hewlett-Packard, Fort Collins, CO, USA
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>sleep 5; xwd -root -out temp
 
>...   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.

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

>Martin Beer

It sounds like your window manager has grabbed the X server, so xwd
can't do anything until the window manager lets go.  You may be able to
get a good graphics dump by using Starbase to gopen the X server's
display device file and calling the bitmap_print(3G) function.  Be sure
to do the gopen without an INIT flag so it doesn't clear the screen.

Mike Stroyan, stroyan@hpstryn