can't take screenshot in solaris 10

When I try to make a screen capture (using xwd, gimp or PrintScreen),
the contents of the cadence windows don't show up. I don't have this
problem in Solaris 9. Any ideas?

 

I'm not sure what the problem is, but you can try using xwininfo to get the
characteristics of the root window, Cadence window and a window that does show
up to try to figure out the difference.

I'm guessing the Cadence window is using a different visual than the root
window.

Can you capture just the Cadence window with gimp?

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stuck to the bottom of the pan as you're
emptying it into the colander.

 

As I mentioned I have tried xwd, gimp and PrintScreen button and I can
not capture the contents of the window. I ran xwininfo but I don't
know how to interpret the result, perhaps someone can provide some
insight?

Cadence Window:

xwininfo: Window id: 0xb0298a "Virtuoso® Schematic Editing: lab4 nor2
schematic "

Absolute upper-left X: 121
Absolute upper-left Y: 144
Relative upper-left X: 1
Relative upper-left Y: 18
Width: 900
Height: 690
Depth: 8
Visual Class: PseudoColor
Border width: 0
Class: InputOutput
Colormap: 0xb00008 (installed)
Bit Gravity State: ForgetGravity
Window Gravity State: NorthWestGravity
Backing Store State: NotUseful
Save Under State: no
Map State: IsViewable
Override Redirect State: no
Corners: +121+144 -259+144 -259-190 +121-190
-geometry 900x690+120+126

Gnome Terminal:

xwininfo: Window id: 0xa008bc "Terminal"

Absolute upper-left X: 271
Absolute upper-left Y: 49
Relative upper-left X: 1
Relative upper-left Y: 18
Width: 728
Height: 396
Depth: 24
Visual Class: TrueColor
Border width: 0
Class: InputOutput
Colormap: 0x34 (installed)
Bit Gravity State: NorthWestGravity
Window Gravity State: NorthWestGravity
Backing Store State: NotUseful
Save Under State: no
Map State: IsViewable
Override Redirect State: no
Corners: +271+49 -281+49 -281-579 +271-579
-geometry 79x22+270+31

I also tried xwininfo on a Cadence window running on a Solaris 9 box
and the output is the same (visual class, depth, class, backing store
state, map state, save under state, override redirect state). This
seems more like a unix problem, I'll go bother my admin to figure it
out.

 

The important things are the depth and visual class.

Try running Cadence with the command line option "-use24". That way it will
come up with 24-bit TrueColor and then you should be able to get a screen
capture.

IC 5.1.41 by default uses 8-bit PseudoColor because it has better performance
that 24-bit TrueColor, but if your root window is 24-bit TrueColor it will
make it hard to get a screen capture.

IC 6.1.X uses only TrueColor visuals because with the change to Qt the GUI
uses a lot more colors, and 8-bit visuals don't work very well.

-Pete Zakel
()

"November: The eleventh twelfth of a weariness."

 

Adding -use24 did the trick, thanks.