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From: "Christoph P. Kukulies" <kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de>
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Subject: Re: Screen capture program
To: justin@structured.net (Justin Ashworth)
Date: Mon, 29 Jul 1996 09:29:13 +0200 (MET DST)
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> I'd like to capture my entire screen, but found that XV will only do a
> full screen capture if I make a square around the screen by dragging
> with the middle mouse button. Well, I don't have a middle mouse button.
> Is there any package that specializes in the capture of an X-win
> desktop?

Thought about using xwd? Fire up

xwd | xwdtopnm | pnmtotiff >snapshot.tif

When a cross appears drag it over the root window
and left mouse click.


(the portable bitmap tools are in /usr/ports/graphics/netpbm (or packages)

> 
> Any help will be greatly appreciated...thanks!
> 
> ________________________________________________________
> Justin Ashworth, justin@structured.net
> _____________
> "Well, you can get away with mistakes as an engineer...
> You call it being creative."
>                                - Roy Langdon (Spacehog)
> ________________________________________________________
> 

--Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de