Re: screenshots

Benjamin J. Tracy (tracy@wsicorp.com)
Thu, 3 Dec 1998 16:07:56 -0500 (EST) 


>From the xwd man page on an SGI: (presumably similar for other platforms)

          -root   This option indicates that the root window should be
                  selected for the window dump, without requiring the
                  user to select a window with the pointer.

          -id id  This option indicates that the window with the
                  specified resource id should be selected for the
                  window dump, without requiring the user to select a
                  window with the pointer.

Thus, you should be able to do something like the following from your
prompt:

$ sleep 3 ; xwd -root -out shot.xwd

Which would give you 3 seconds to bring up the start menu after you hit
return, or:

$ sleep 3 ; xwd -id <id #> -out windowshot.xwd

The id number can be determined using xwininfo or the Ident module.

And the moral of today's story is: check the man page first! :) I
understand however, that sometimes the man pages are horribly unclear.

HTH
Ben

On Thu, 3 Dec 1998, Jordy Simpson wrote:

> I've seen several screenshots on the web where the shot includes part of the
> start menu expanded.  How is this accomplished?
> 
> The only way I know of to make a screen capture is to bring up an xterm and
> run "xwd -out somefile.xwd", then convert somefile.xwd using the Gimp.
> Unfortunately, this only allows for a window-grab or a full-screen grab, and
> requires clicking on whatever you want grabbed.  Hence, no ability to pop up
> the start menu.
> 
> If anyone knows how to get a screenshot _with_ the start menu in it, please
> let me know!
> 
> TIA,
> Jordy
> 
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