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From: swick@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ralph R. Swick)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: X11 dump from DECstation 3100?
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Date: 16 May 89 15:59:18 GMT
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> Date: 15 May 89 23:47:25 GMT
> From: ncar!redcloud!rob@husc6.harvard.edu  (Robert P. Montgomery)
>
> We have a DECstation 3100 running ULTRIX,
>...
> Unfortunately, our xwd always selects the whole root window.  Does anyone
> have a way to dump just a portion of the screen

You need a better version of xwd (that doesn't get confused by
the re-parenting window manager in DECwindows).  Alternatively,
if you know the window id of the application window, the -id
option to xwd will produce the correct results.