On Thu, Feb 18, 2021 at 09:31:06PM +0100, Klaus Ethgen wrote:
> Am Do den 18. Feb 2021 um 18:57 schrieb Dominik Vogt:
> > They tell the X server to do it, mostly by doing alpha blending, I
> > think. X offers no reliable way to get any screen contents other
> > than what you can see. Doing that
Am Do den 18. Feb 2021 um 18:57 schrieb Dominik Vogt:
> They tell the X server to do it, mostly by doing alpha blending, I
> think. X offers no reliable way to get any screen contents other
> than what you can see. Doing that on the client is also really
> too slow.
Do you know, how?
From my
On Thu, Feb 18, 2021 at 02:00:44PM +0100, Klaus Ethgen wrote:
> Hi Dominik,
>
> Am Do den 18. Feb 2021 um 12:36 schrieb Dominik Vogt:
> > On Wed, Feb 17, 2021 at 06:48:45PM +0100, Klaus Ethgen wrote:
> > > seting the background (root window) to some image is easy. But is there
> > > any way to get
Hi Dominik,
Am Do den 18. Feb 2021 um 12:36 schrieb Dominik Vogt:
> On Wed, Feb 17, 2021 at 06:48:45PM +0100, Klaus Ethgen wrote:
> > seting the background (root window) to some image is easy. But is there
> > any way to get the image content on fvwm root window back to an image?
>
> As far as I
On Wed, Feb 17, 2021 at 06:48:45PM +0100, Klaus Ethgen wrote:
> seting the background (root window) to some image is easy. But is there
> any way to get the image content on fvwm root window back to an image?
As far as I know the X protocol offers no way to retrieve the
background pixmap of any
Hi Rainer,
Am Do den 18. Feb 2021 um 11:57 schrieb Dr Rainer Woitok:
> On Thursday, 2021-02-18 10:44:03 +0100, you wrote:
>
> > ...
> > Both just get the current visible desktop; with all windows ans other
> > stuff that is ontop of the root window.
>
> That's something you can do with "xwd":
>
Klaus,
On Thursday, 2021-02-18 10:44:03 +0100, you wrote:
> ...
> Both just get the current visible desktop; with all windows ans other
> stuff that is ontop of the root window.
That's something you can do with "xwd":
$ xwd -root | convert xwd:- file.png
> I want to get the content of the
Hi Rainer,
Am Do den 18. Feb 2021 um 10:35 schrieb Dr Rainer Woitok:
> > seting the background (root window) to some image is easy. But is there
> > any way to get the image content on fvwm root window back to an image?
>
> A screenshot? Something like "xwd"? Or am I misunderstanding what you
Klaus,
On Wednesday, 2021-02-17 18:48:45 +0100, you wrote:
> ...
> seting the background (root window) to some image is easy. But is there
> any way to get the image content on fvwm root window back to an image?
A screenshot? Something like "xwd"? Or am I misunderstanding what you
want to
