How to take a screenshot and save it to a file.

[Mark Stewart]

I am running a program under HP-UX 11.x and need to take a screen shot of one of the program's windows. Even getting a screenshot of the entire screen would suffice. Is there a way to do this under HP-UX? What command would I use? Also, is there a place I can paste it to and save it as a file somehow?

Thanks!

[Paul Sperry · Accepted solution]

xwd - dump an image of an X window

Xwd is an X Window System window dumping utility. Xwd allows X users
to store window images in a specially formatted dump file. This file
can then be read by various other X utilities for redisplay, printing,
editing, formatting, archiving, image processing, etc. The target
window is selected by clicking the pointer in the desired window. The
keyboard bell is rung once at the beginning of the dump and twice when
the dump is completed.

[James R. Ferguson]

Hi Mark:

# script -a myscreen

See the man pages for 'script' for more information.

Regards!

...JRF...

[A. Clay Stephenson]

Well it makes a big difference if this is X or simply a terminal. If X then xwd is your boy; if a terminal the you can use tee to copy the stdout or the script command can prove very useful.

Of course, your other option is to use one of the advanced operating systems and run a terminal emulator or an X server like Reflection X and then copying the snapshots is easy.

[Leif Halvarsson_2]

Hi,
There is a user-friendly version of xwd,
/opt/screencapture/bin/capture

[Caesar_3]

Hello!

You can dump the X with xwd command will save
in X format.
You can download xv and use the capture there
download from : hpux.connect.org.uk

Caesar

[Martin Johnson]

You can also try /usr/contrib/bin/xxprint if it is on your system.

HTH
Marty

[Tom Ward_1]

Since no one mentioned it, if you're running Exceed on a PC for your X server, you can just get focus in the X appplicaiton and use Alt-Print Screen to get a copy. Then paste it into Word or Paint. Not all applications will take the graphic buffer. Netscape works for me, but Mozilla does not.

[Mark Stewart]

Ok, I have Xwd on my system and it appears to be doing its job (heard the beeps). Now, where is it "dumping" the screen to? Or I guess a better question is, how can I access the image it grabbed? Is there another specific X related command for this?

[A. Clay Stephenson]

Unless you used a -out myfile parameter, xwd dumps to stdout.

[Bill Douglass]

xwd -out /tmp/x

to save a window dump

xwud -in /tmp/x

to view the file.

xpr -device ps -output /tmp/x.ps /tmp/x

will save the dump as a postscript file.