Hi Dominik, Am Do den 18. Feb 2021 um 12:36 schrieb Dominik Vogt: > On Wed, Feb 17, 2021 at 06:48:45PM +0100, Klaus Ethgen wrote: > > seting the background (root window) to some image is easy. But is there > > any way to get the image content on fvwm root window back to an image? > > As far as I know the X protocol offers no way to retrieve the > background pixmap of any window.
Sad. How are window manager working when they provide transparency? How does ETerm does it? (however, it doesn't work here) > The best approximation is to > remove all windows from the current desk and then make a > screenshot. For example, from FvwmConsole: > > all stick off > all movetodesk 1 Sure, but this will make more troubles as it is use for. > *But* if there is some background image, how did it get there? > There should be some readable image file somewhere on the system. More or less. Image comes from different sources. Be it webcollage (from xscreensaver) or a script, scaling and manipulating a image bevore display. Regards Klaus -- Klaus Ethgen http://www.ethgen.ch/ pub 4096R/4E20AF1C 2011-05-16 Klaus Ethgen <kl...@ethgen.ch> Fingerprint: 85D4 CA42 952C 949B 1753 62B3 79D0 B06F 4E20 AF1C
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