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Re: grabbing a complete X screen



On Tue, 10 Nov 1998, Tuvik Beker wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I need an application that will grab the whole X display (upon a
> specified combination of keystrokes), process it to a postscript file
> and dump it to the printer. 
> Something like "Print Screen" for X-windows. Grabbing the whole display
> from xv and then processing the file produces the right result, but
> unfortunately there's no way of doing that from the command line (as far
> as I know). 
> Do you know of any utility that does it, or have an idea how to (easily)
> write such a thing?!
> Thanks in advance, any idea welcome.

check xwd,xpr and xwud. some combination of them ought to work.

--Asher