[lug] Off topic: oversize x11 screen capture?

[Steve Sullivan]

Hi,

Thanks for the notes on xwd and ksnapshot.  Unfortunately in my tests
they do the same thing as xv - they only capture the visible portion
of a large window.

It seems that none of these tools capture the unshown portion of
the window - the part that is off the edge of the root pane, beyond
the edge of the monitor.

For example, take an xterm and drag it to the edge of your screen so
only the top left corner of the xterm is visible.  Is there a way to
capture the entire xterm?  In my case I have a window that's far
larger than the screen, so it spreads way beyond the edges of the
screen.

Thanks,

Steve

On Sun, Feb 10, 2008 at 12:22:00PM -0600, Hugh Brown wrote:
> Steve Sullivan wrote:
> >Hi,
> >
> >I want to screen-capture a Firefox page that's twice as wide and twice
> >as high as my screen.  Currently I run xv under KDE and capture 4
> >screen shots and paste them together in inkscape.  A pain!  Is there a
> >way to capture the whole image at once?
> >
> >Thanks,
> >
> >Steve
> >
> >
> 
> xwd -out foo.xwd
> 
> the cursor will change to crosshairs, click in the firefox window and it 
> will dump the window to foo.xwd (be careful that you don't have any 
> other windows on top of the firefox window.
> 
> xwud -in foo.xwd will let you see it.  I think gimp understands xwd as well.
> 
> You could also try using ksnapshot
> 
> Hugh
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