Re: X screen dump

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From: Jonny Farringdon
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 10:51

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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...

>   Yannick Lallement -   ting  system,  but  I   - lallemen@loria.fr
If you do something like ...
 
xwd -out screen.x
xwd | xpr -dev ps -out screen.ps
xwd | xpr -dev ps | lpr
 
and select the root window for xwd (rather than any particular window) you
WILL find it gets the entire screen.
 
 
J.  ucjtrjf@ucl.ac.uk

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From: ucjtrjf@ucl.ac.uk (Jonny Farringdon)
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Subject: Re: X screen dump
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