Well, to confirm, I didn't want to print contents of a single screen but everything which comes to the screen once I start the "log to file"...
I hope recompiling xterm with --enable-logging would resolve this issue... On 5/8/07, Thomas Dickey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Tue, 8 May 2007, Gary Johnson wrote: > On 2007-05-08, Mansoorali Kudsi wrote: >> Hi, >> >> Really dumb question. but hope somebody replies to this one? >> >> Is it possible to save the entire contents of a xterm window into a >> file? (using anything other than "script") >> >> e.g. for a putty window, we have an option of logging all the contents >> of the putty window into a file >> just by doing a right click and giving the file name and path in the >> properties window. >> >> Do we have a similar option for an xterm window in Cygwin? > > Xterm has such an option but the last time I checked (Nov. 2006) it > was not enabled in the Cygwin xterm binary. You may have to build > xterm yourself with the "--enable-logging" configure option. > Logging can then be enabled and disabled via the Ctrl-left- or > Ctrl-middle-mouse-button menu. (I don't remember which and I don't > have an xterm handy at the moment.) The log file will be written to > your $HOME directory with the name XtermLog.<PID> where <PID> is the > process ID of the xterm's process. well... the logging operation doesn't print the whole window. It writes text to a file concurrently with writing it to the screen. That may be what he wanted, but I read it as printing the current screen to a file. Where I'm sitting at the moment I don't have cygwin at hand, but since the printer support in xterm isn't ifdef'd I'd assume it's available in the Cygwin binary. (See the top of the control/left mouse menu - grayed out menu entries are still user-configurable). Logging historically was ifdef'd because in X11R5 (early 1990's), the setuid xterm was known to be insecure. Cygwin doesn't have setuid xterm, so (if there were a reliable way to determine this in a configure script), it would be reasonable to always enable the feature. -- Thomas E. Dickey http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ FAQ: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/
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