With all the mystery issues concerning xwd(1), there is a workable
alternative:
import jpg:- | display
verified to work on xfce(1), fvwm(1), on Debian 7, 8, 9, i386, amd64.
The argument "jpg:" can be any ImageMagick recognized file, (i.e.,
gif:, png:, etc.)
John
Richard Hector writes:
> On 23/02/18 12:40, Brian wrote:
> > On Thu 22 Feb 2018 at 13:35:20 -0800, John Conover wrote:
> >
> >>
> >> xwd > myfile
> >> display myfile
> >>
> >> gives:
> >>
> >> "display-im6.q16: no decode delegate for this image format `' @
> >> error/constitute.c/ReadImage/504."
> >>
> >> Anything else read the file and do file conversions?
> >
> > xwd > myfile.xwd
> > display myfile.xwd
>
> Me too. Seems to work if the file has the .xwd extension, but not otherwise.
>
> Richard
>
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