Hi Anthony, I'm speechless; your answer opened me a new world!
2009/6/23 Anthony Thyssen <[email protected]>: > > WARNING. if you grab a window, and another window is over the top of it > the image contents will either contain the overlaping window, or a > blank undefined (undrawn) area. So make sure when grabbing windows > that window is ON TOP. Yeah, in fact my first capture was... a black rectangle! after a few experiment I realized why :-) > > Xterms, and many other terminal windows report the window ID in the > environment variable "WINDOWID" as a decimal number. So scripts can > easily grab the contents of the terminal window from which it was run. mmh.. good to know. > > For example try this, whcih asks ImageMagick to display the contents > of the terminal you ran the command from... > display x:$WINDOWID this was fun... > child=`xwininfo -children -id $WINDOWID | sed -n 's/^ *\(0x[^ ]*\).*/\1/p'` > Now you can draw directly into that window > convert rose: rose.png > xloadimage rose:.png -windowid $child but this was even more fun! Thank you again for your reply. Cheers, Giovanni _______________________________________________ Magick-users mailing list [email protected] http://studio.imagemagick.org/mailman/listinfo/magick-users
