Debian Bug report logs - #101937
xbase-clients: [xwd] 'xwd -name windowtitle -frame' doesn't capture frame

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Message #5 received at [email protected] (full text, mbox, reply):

From: "Tilman J . Rothe" <[email protected]>

To: [email protected]

Subject: xbase-clients: "xwd -name windowtitle -frame" doesn't capture frame

Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2001 19:51:10 +0200

Package: xbase-clients
Version: 3.3.6-11potato32
Severity: normal

Hi,

if I create a screenshot with 

xwd -name '[email protected]'  -out image -frame

the screenshot doesn't contain the window manager frame. If I specify
the window by clicking on it (without the -name option), I get the
screenshot including the window manager frame as expected:

xwd   -out image -frame


fvwm -version
[FVWM][main]:  Fvwm Version 2.2.4 compiled on Jan 19 2000 at 00:53:30
# no gnome, kde or the like

-- System Information
Debian Release: 2.2
Kernel Version: Linux extaxpi 2.2.19 #1 Wed May 30 17:07:25 CEST 2001 i586 unknown

Versions of the packages xbase-clients depends on:
ii  cpp            2.95.2-13      The GNU C preprocessor.
ii  libc6          2.1.3-19       GNU C Library: Shared libraries and Timezone
ii  libncurses5    5.0-6.0potato1 Shared libraries for terminal handling
ii  xlib6g         3.3.6-11potato shared libraries required by X clients
ii  zlib1g         1.1.3-5        compression library - runtime
	^^^ (Provides virtual package libz1)

Message #10 received at [email protected] (full text, mbox, reply):

From: "Tilman J. Rothe" <[email protected]>

To: [email protected]

Subject: xwd / no frame: X version, window-id

Date: Sat, 23 Jun 2001 19:54:39 +0200

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Hi,
sorry I forgot to mention this in the bug report:

X version:
xf86SumProc  pSum=0x8239098 what=CLOSE
XFree86 Version 3.3.6 / X Window System
(protocol Version 11, revision 0, vendor release 6300)
Release Date: January 8 2000
Operating System: Linux 2.2.14-va.4.4-i586 i686 [ELF] 
Configured drivers:
  Mach64: accelerated server for ATI Mach64 graphics adaptors (Patchlevel 1)
(using VT number 7)

window id:
Using the window ID instead of the titel doesn't work, either:
xwd  -id 0x3400002 -out image-full -frame
[same results as with title]


Ciao, Tilman

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Message #31 received at [email protected] (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Alan Coopersmith <[email protected]>

To: [email protected]

Subject: [xwd] 'xwd -name windowtitle -frame' doesn't capture frame

Date: Sat, 18 Feb 2023 15:04:36 -0800

This is operating as documented - in the xwd man page, it states:

       -frame  This  option  indicates that the window manager frame should be
               included when manually selecting a window.

But using -name is selecting a window automatically, not waiting for the user
to manually click on it.

With the current implementation, you would instead need to do:

"xwininfo -name ... -children | grep Parent"

and use the id returned by that with the -id argument to xwd:

"xwd -id ... -out image"

Making -frame work with the automatic selection arguments (-id & -name)
might be a nice enhancement, but it's not a bug that it doesn't yet.

-- 
        -Alan Coopersmith-                 [email protected]
         Oracle Solaris Engineering - https://blogs.oracle.com/solaris

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