Screen dumps which include menus?

John Polstra polstra!jdp at uunet.uu.net
Mon Mar 5 21:34:20 AEST 1990


In article <5433 at brazos.Rice.edu> C.Eagle at massey.ac.nz writes:
>X-Sun-Spots-Digest: Volume 9, Issue 65, message 4
>
>Does anyone know how to take a dump of a sun screen, which includes a
>pop-up menu?  When a menu is brought up, it appears to lock the scren so
>that screendump/dumpregion etc cannot read it.

No problem.  Try something like this:

	(sleep 5;  screendump >foo) &

You'll have 5 seconds to pop up your menu, then the screen will get dumped.

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