AIX Tip of the Week

Capturing an X Windows Screen with "xwd" Command

Audience: AIX Users

Date: November 23, 2001

You can use the standard UNIX command xwd to capture an image of an X window in a dump file. The dump file can then be read by various other X utilities for redisplay, printing, editing, etc.

See the man pages for more information.


Bruce Spencer,
baspence@us.ibm.com