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From: dy@cbnewsj.att.com (david.k.yip)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: tvtwm -- printing window problem with tvtwm
Keywords: tvtwm,xwd,X,print
Message-ID: <1990Oct3.135738.17668@cbnewsj.att.com>
Date: 3 Oct 90 13:57:38 GMT
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories
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I have a little shell script (print_window) that takes a snap shot of a window
or the screen.  This simple shell script is built using xwd and xpr, see below:

     xwd -frame | xpr -landscape -compact -device ps | prt -l raw

The last command in the pipe is our local postscript prt command.

Now that I have switched over using tvtwm, the output of print_window no
longer work correctly.  When I select a window to be printed, the output used
to be a snap shot of the selected window. But when using tvtwm, I get a snap
shot of the whole screen. If the virtaul desktop option is NOT used, than
everything works fine.  Has anyone noticed this problem using xwd, running
tvtwm + virtaul desktop, to print a window??

The print_window shell script is very useful in our environment and so is the
virtaul desktop option.  I don't want to lose either thus I would love to know
what is the problem and the fix for it.

Any info would be greatly appreciated, thanks.

David K. Yip  
AT&T Bell Labs
Middletown NJ
(201)-957-5544
(dy@mtgzx.att.com)