Bug#416315: xbase-clients: xwd does not work

["Michal Suchanek" <hramrach@centrum.cz>]

On 3/26/07, Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org> wrote:
> tags 416315 moreinfo unreproducible
> kthxbye
>
> On Mon, Mar 26, 2007 at 22:47:27 +0200, hramrach wrote:
>
> > After some X upgrade I can no longer take screenshots with xwd.
> >
> > Xwd shows its cursor and dallows me to select a window, and then fails
> > with an error. Capturing by window id does not work either. I tried to
> > upgrade to the latest xbase-clients and libraries, and the only result
> > is that xwd fails faster, and the failed request serial is larger (969
> > vs 900).
> >
> > X Error of failed request:  BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes)
> > Major opcode of failed request:  73 (X_GetImage)
> > Serial number of failed request:  969
> > Current serial number in output stream:  969
> >
> Hi,
>
> I'm unable to reproduce this, xwd works fine here.  Can you try to
> determine since when it fails, and tell us which version of the X server
> you're running (dpkg -l xserver-xorg-core)?
ii  xserver-xorg-core     1.2.99.902-1          X.Org X server -- core server

This is the first time I tried with a 1.2 server. Last time I used xwd
was probably more than a month ago, with 7.1 xorg.

Thanks

Michal