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Re: X screen dump

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From: Howard Stroyan
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 00:31
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In comp.windows.x, lallemen@bellieni.loria.fr (Yannick Lallement) writes:

> 
> I need to dump an entire X screen to a file. xwd does not do that. I
> need something which can work on a X-terminal (the Sun "screendump" is
> not ok.) If you have any idea...

xwd will dump the entire screen if you use the "-root" option.
Unfortunately it will assume that the entire screen is of the
same visual and colormap as the root window, which may or may
not be the case.

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Howard Stroyan                                         
Hewlett-Packard                                        hstroyan@fc.hp.com
Systems Technology Division                     
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From: hstroyan@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM (Howard Stroyan)
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 00:31:13 GMT
Subject: Re: X screen dump
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