Re: FVWM: fvwm2 - xv can't grab screens

From: Keven R. Pittsinger <jamstar_at_glasscity.net>
Date: Fri, 29 May 1998 00:29:28 -0400

> It's me again. Just now I got around to playing with the screen grab
> stuff and am still having problems.
> As I mentioned before, xv (3.10a) will not grab fvwm2 screens but has
> no problem with other window managers. Running at 1024x768, 16bpp.
> I now get errors that I never received before. I'm in DOS now so
> I sorta forgot it. :-) Something like 'can't grab 0,0 1024x760'.

xv screen grabs work for me. I set them to autograb with a 5 second delay,
hide xv. When xv comes back, page over to another portion of the desktop, or
change desktops, then come back and click your left button on the xv *picture*
title bar.

> Anyway, tried xwd as mentioned. Xwd created images that are near black
> so they're useless. Almost like someone turned out the lights on the
> image. This happens with other wm's also.

I've never been able to figure out how to convert them to a useable format.
For whatever reason (99.999% likely, *operator error*), I've never been able
to get ImageMagick installed right.

> Just read on a newsgroup that xwd doesn't support above 8bpp.
> Is this true?

No clue. I'm running Accel-X at 16 bbp, never been able to get XF86_SVGA to
go above 8 bbp with my Trident 9440 2 meg card. *(

Keven
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