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From: ddavey@kiwi.uucp (Doug Davey)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: window dump WITH menus
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Date: 4 Jun 91 02:30:17 GMT
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The key that unlocked capturing screen images with pulldown menus for me
was setting the "saveUnder" resource to False.  (Thanks for the tip Andrew.)

For example:
1) Kick off your X application as follows:
   yourxapp -xrm "*saveUnder: False"

2) Then use xlswins to find the window id that you want.
   In this example we will use: 0x30016d

3) Then use sleep and xwd to dump the window.
   sleep 10 ; xwd -id 0x30016d >foo.xwd

While the sleep is counting down, pull down the menu in your application,
keep the menu pulled down, and smile.

If you have ever taken a picture of yourself with a timer on a camera,
this should all feel familiar.  :-)  Hope this helps.
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  Doug Davey   bellcore!bae!ddavey   ddavey@bae.bellcore.com