Re: screenshot in xfree86

1997-10-03 Thread joost witteveen
> On Thu, 2 Oct 1997, Aaron Walker wrote: > > > Does anyone know how to take a screenshot of the X desktop? > > > well if you are using the default afterstep rc file hitting F4 will do a > screenshot of the desktop, this file needs to be converted to another > graphic format I guess but I know it

Re: screenshot in xfree86

1997-10-03 Thread Rick Macdonald
On Thu, 2 Oct 1997, Aaron Walker wrote: > Does anyone know how to take a screenshot of the X desktop? xv has a grab function built-in. It can grab a single window or the entire root window (ie the entire screen). ...RickM... -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscri

Re: screenshot in xfree86

1997-10-03 Thread Richard . Dansereau
I believe that "xwd" will do it. This will just do a bitmap window dump. Another option is to use the grab feature in "xv". You can then save it in whatever format you want. Oh, and I don't know if it is available for Debian, but I have run "xgrab" before under xfree86 in linux. This does bitm

Re: screenshot in xfree86

1997-10-02 Thread Pete Harlan
> Does anyone know how to take a screenshot of the X desktop? xwd will grab the data. It's then an issue of converting the format to one you like (netpbm package is usually the answer for this sort of thing). -- Pete Harlan [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the

Re: screenshot in xfree86

1997-10-02 Thread Bjorn Isaksson
On Thu, 2 Oct 1997, Aaron Walker wrote: > Does anyone know how to take a screenshot of the X desktop? > You may wanna try the following: $ xwd -root > screendump $ xwud < screendump You can then use xv to convert the image to a more common format, say jpeg or gif. /Bjorn - - - - umop apisdn

Re: screenshot in xfree86

1997-10-02 Thread kestrel
On Thu, 2 Oct 1997, Aaron Walker wrote: > Does anyone know how to take a screenshot of the X desktop? > well if you are using the default afterstep rc file hitting F4 will do a screenshot of the desktop, this file needs to be converted to another graphic format I guess but I know it works (occasi

screenshot in xfree86

1997-10-02 Thread Aaron Walker
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