On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 5:00 PM, Anthony Thyssen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> "Brian Jones" on wrote... > | I have a script that contains the following line: > | > | /usr/bin/import -page 754x582+20+20 $imgname > | > | With ImageMagick 5.5.6 (on RedHat Enterprise Linux 3U5 x64) this does > | exactly what I want, it brings the selected window to the foreground and > | then captures the window, slightly resizes it, and saves it to file > | $imgname. > | > | With ImageMagick 6.2.8 (on RedHat Enterprise Linux 5U1 x64) it does not > | bring bring the selected window to the foreground. Instead, it acts as > if I > | had added "-screen" to the command line, producing the undesirable > behavior > | of capturing parts of overlying windows. > | > | I couldn't find an option to force the window to the foreground. Any > | suggestions? > > A X window solution is to use "xwit" with the default -pop > option, to de-iconify and rasie the window to the top of the > window stack. > > I use this to resize, position iconify various windows under program > control. I also also used it to 'shake' a window to bring it to my > attention. > > > Anthony Thyssen ( System Programmer ) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Thx Anthony, xwit did the trick. Of course there's no rpm for RedHat so I had to compile from source, but that's ok. For others looking at this solution, I got the xwit source from: http://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/x/xwit/ --Brian _______________________________________________ Magick-users mailing list [email protected] http://studio.imagemagick.org/mailman/listinfo/magick-users
