On Thu, 28 May 1998, Marc D. Williams wrote:
> > Don't know ... I've never had trouble with xv, even on many many platforms.
> > You could use xwd in the meantime.
>
> 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'.
>
> 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.
> Just read on a newsgroup that xwd doesn't support above 8bpp.
> Is this true?
>
> Any suggestions on another app with screen grab features?
> Not sure if KDE's ksnapshot would work outside of KDE (don't ksnapshot
> yet anway).
Well, I've never found XV's screen grab utils to be very stable (shame
tho). I don't like KDE so I wouldn't suggest it... I don't think XWD works
with anything better than 8bit displays.
My suggestion would be to use GIMP ... as early as the 0.99.29 release of
GIMP, there's been a grabbing (screen, window, rubberband) feature.
-peace
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