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From: john@gec-marconi-software-systems.co.UK (John Farley)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: xwd and xwud problem/feature
Message-ID: <14096.9101101526@fireball.gmsws.co.uk>
Date: 10 Jan 91 15:26:36 GMT
Sender: daemon@athena.mit.edu (Mr Background)
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I have a small problem with the xwd and xwud clients. I am trying to
dump  windows that have  menus displayed. An example is xterm with the
main options menu displayed.

I dump the window using the following:-

	xwininfo (to get window id of the xterm to dump say 0x20000d)
	sleep 10 ; xwd -id 0x20000d > test1.wd

The sleep was to give me time to get to the xterm and and do a CTRL and
left mouse button to bring up the main options menu.

Now when I do a 'xwud -in test1.wd' the window dump of the xterm is
displayed but the menu I had activated is not shown, but any other window
overlapping the window I dumped is shown.

If I dump the root window then I get what I expected (ie the menu
is included in the dump). To do this I did :-

	sleep 10 ; xwd -root > test2.wd

Now is this a problem with my use of xwd? Is it a bug with xwd or xuwd?
Is this the way xwd is ment to work?

I am running X11R4 on a Sun 3/160 running SunOS 4.1 but where X11R4 was
compiled under SunOS 4.0.3. The build of our X was done about a year
ago so I don't know if any patches would have any effect on my problem.

Thanks for any information on this problem.


john@uk.co.gmsws