Need to take screen shot of CDE login screen

2007-12-25 9:21:00

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:

roy Wollenslegel <troy@intranet.org>

-Marc

Marc S. Gibian

COMSYS Information Technology Services phone: (617) 377-6350

and if all else fails: marc.gibian@acm.org

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