Subject: Re: FVWM: taking screenshot of multiple / all desks / pages

From: xavier <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 3 Sep 2004 10:15:53 -0400

On Sat, Aug 28, 2004 at 09:36:30AM +0100, Tavis Ormandy wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 27, 2004 at 10:48:02AM -0400, xavier wrote:
> > 
> > works great.
> > 
> > takes 1 mins for 10x7 on one desk.
> 
> Try this, might be a bit faster:
> 
> AddToFunc Screenshot I PipeRead `for ((x=0;x<$[desk.pagesx];x++)); do \
> 	for ((y=0;y<$[desk.pagesy];y++)); \
> 		do echo GotoPage ${x} ${y}; \
> 		xwd -root -silent -out $[FVWM_USERDIR]/page_${x}_${y}.xwd;\
> 	done; done;\
> 	montage -geometry $[vp.width]x$[vp.height] -tile \
> 	$[desk.pagesx]x$[desk.pagesy] $[FVWM_USERDIR]/page_*_*.xwd \
> 	png:$[HOME]/screenshot.png; rm -f $[FVWM_USERDIR]/page_*_*.xwd`

xwd is fast ! works really great.
however montage, trying to glue 70 1280x1024 images together, almost 
killed my box. but that's fine, i can deal with that.

> 
> (makes a screenshot.png in your home dir)
> 
> > however, there is desks where there is nothing ;
> > is there a fvwm way to know that ? so that i don't take 
> > empty and useless screenshots.
> > 
> 
> Sure, use Any (CurrentPage) DoStuff..
> 

hummm, errr, could you be more specific ?
(urls, pointers to doc ?)

i'm lost.

thanks

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xavier
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