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From: hbrand@lll-crg.llnl.gov (Hal Brand)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: X11 dump from DECstation 3100?
Summary: dxwm interferes with xwd
Keywords: X11, dump, xwd, DEC, dxwm
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Date: 16 May 89 17:53:01 GMT
References: <3233@ncar.ucar.edu>
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In article <3233@ncar.ucar.edu> rob@redcloud.ucar.edu.UUCP (Robert P. Montgomery) writes:
>We have a DECstation 3100 running ULTRIX, and would like to use something
>similar to 'xwd' of the Athena widget set to dump a portion of the screen
>to an X11 file.
>
>Unfortunately, our xwd always selects the whole root window.  Does anyone
>have a way to dump just a portion of the screen (i.e., an application window)
>to X11 XWD format?

I had the same problem with my VaxStation 2000 and Ultrix Workstation
software V2.0 (running on Ultrix V3.0)! Somebody in UWS support indicated
that dxwm (or maybe dxsession) "places a window over the whole screen" and
this might interfere with xwd. Sure enough, when I went to uwm and dropped
dxwm and dxsession, xwd acted properly - modulo what appears to be a bug
in the Xqdsg server regarding XYPixmaps. I've given up on dxwm and dxsession
and use uwm. I like uwm much better and it cuts memory usage from 75% to
50% on my 10 Mbyte VS2000!

Hal Brand
brand@hal.llnl.gov