RE: FVWM: desktop

From: Grant McDorman <grant_at_isgtec.com>
Date: Mon, 25 Mar 1996 13:40:53 -0500 (EST)

On 25-Mar-96 15:09:13 Mirai wrote:
>>Hi,
...
> how do I
>get a screendump of the screen WHILE the root window menu is popped up?
>I'd like to show off the menus.

Suggestions so far:
  - use xv's Grab capability
  - use sleep + xwd -root in a shell

My suggestion:
  - use xgrab, by Bruce Schuchardt.

The sleep & xwd -root is awkward, as you'll get
the whole screen, and will probably have to trim it.

xv will work reasonably well; it doesn't have the extra options
that xgrab does but it'll do what you need. Although I haven't
tried it, xv's "AutoGrab" mechanism may work well to grab just
the menu. (It will probably not work very well for heirarchical
menus, though.)

My personal preference is xgrab (available from ftp.x.org contrib);
it has a nice GUI that lets you set sleep before and after; you can
grab windows, stretch a rectangle, or grab the whole screen. Output,
too, can be PostScript, xwd, ppm, or xpm. It's a nice tool.

In any event, you'll have to either grab the whole screen (as per xwd)
or drag a rectangle out where you expect the menu to be. This is also
true for applications; grabbing the application window, even with a delay,
will not get the menu (because, in low-level X terms, the menu isn't part
of the application's window).

Grant McDorman <grant_at_isgtec.com>
                                ISG Technologies, Inc.
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Received on Mon Mar 25 1996 - 13:29:03 GMT

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