On Mon, Jul 30, 2001 at 11:09:21PM -0600, Kurt Wall wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 31, 2001 at 12:29:52AM -0400, Joel Hammer wrote:
> > I am getting daft but I can't seem to use xv to grab a screen which has
> > multiple open windows on it. It just give me the window the cursor is in.
> > My attempts to grab a rectangle don't work well across several screens.
> > Any insight appreciated.
>
> Try xwd instead. It will grab the whole screen, I believe:
>
> $ xwd -screen | convert - dump.jpeg
>
> Grabs the root window, pipes the output to convert, which reads its
> stdin and dumps the result in dump.jpeg.
>
Thanks. The xwd worked just as expected.
I did find out also what I was doing wrong with xv. You have to click on the
desktop on the screen you want to capture, not on some open window. For some
reason I was just too tired to think of it last night!
Joel
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