Original question:
Can anyone provide instructions on how one might take a screen shot, say with
xv, of the CDE login screen? This seems like a chicken and egg problem as one
must be logged in to take the screen shot, but once logged in, how do you
display the login screen?
Resolution:
None of the non-PC solutions worked, in most cases just hanging and doing
nothing. We found the desired image in an answerbook, grabbed it and manipulated
it with a number of tools until it was in the desired format. That is good
enough, though I still don't understand why nothing recommended worked.
Solaris suggestions solution:
>> Try telneting in and using xwd -display <display> -root -out /tmp/foo.xwd
This is the one I tried, with the result being the xwd command just waiting and
doing nothing. I had expected that it would either fail due to x security
considerations, grab the wrong display, or work. But instead, it just sits there
doing nothing?
There were a couple of suggestions to use Xnest, but that was much more
complicated than what seemed justified for what the image was to be used for.
My thanks to:
HCDEB@mead.com
"Iskander, Tim" <ISKANDER@infimed.com>
Mark Belanger <mark_belanger@ltx.com>
djohnson@nbserv2.dseg.ti.com (Danny Johnson)
Eugene Kramer <eugene@uniteq.com>
roy Wollenslegel <troy@intranet.org>
Jim Harmon <jharmon@telecnnct.com>
Thomas Leitner <tom@finwds01.tu-graz.ac.at>
David Stern <dave@davka.gsfc.nasa.gov>
Nick Murray <nmurray@csd.abdn.ac.uk>
"Jonathan R. Wilner" <jonathan.wilner@eng.delgroup.com>
-Marc
Marc S. Gibian
COMSYS Information Technology Services phone: (617) 377-6350
PRISM/TFS email: gibian@stars1.hanscom.af.mil
or is it: gibian@hanscom.af.mil
well, maybe: gibianm@hanscom.af.mil
and if all else fails: marc.gibian@acm.org
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