Re: grabbing root window images.

[dtm12@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu (Daniel Martin at cush)]

Alexey Vyskubov <wizard@alv.stud.pu.ru> writes:

> Is there a way to grab root window without such sophisticated procedure?

xwd -root > file.xwd

This format is a bit ... obscure, but it can be converted to ppm with
xwdtopnm (in the netpbm package), and you can look at a captured image 
with xwud.  I occasionally do this to get a look at the X screen on a
remote machine:

ssh -C remotemachine 'DISPLAY=:0.0 xwd -root; sleep 30;' | xwud

Also, xwd is free (it's in xbase).


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