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Date:      Wed, 12 Dec 2001 15:06:24 -0800 (PST)
From:      Bill Schoolcraft <bill@wiliweld.com>
To:        Edwin Groothuis <edwin@mavetju.org>
Cc:        <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Capture screen shot of (root) Xwindow
Message-ID:  <Pine.LNX.4.33.0112121505530.4683-100000@localhost.localdomain>
In-Reply-To: <20011213093559.F724@k7.mavetju.org>

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At Thu, 13 Dec 2001 it looks like Edwin Groothuis composed:

> On Wed, Dec 12, 2001 at 12:37:55PM -0800, Bill Schoolcraft wrote:
> > Hello Family,
> > 
> > In showing a customer how VMware looks in Linux I did the command
> > 
> > import -window root win95.jpg
> > 
> > and got the following screenshot
> > 
> > http://wiliweld.com/win95.jpg
> > 
> > In FreeBSD how would I do that ? I see there is no "import" command.
> 
> There are several ways, one of them is xv (/usr/ports/graphics/x;
> - open xv
> - click with right mousebutton on the window
> - select grab
> - click grab
> - click root-window
> - click save
> ...
> - and at the end, press 'q' on the image to quit it.
> 

That worked, great.... thanks. :)

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