Re: Making Movies: problems

[Marcus G. Daniels]

>>>>> "ST" == Sven N Thommesen <address@hidden> writes:

ST> Could we possibly have a settable parameter for this?

Swarm does not to create the surrounding border decorations, that's
the work of the window manager.  Try running `xterm' instead of your
window manager in your X startup script to see what Swarm is putting 
on the screen.

MD>  Please clarify what you mean by "window".  Are you saying that the
MD> virtual screens aren't swapped to do snapshots of off-screen
MD> widgets?

ST> Curse X terminology on this! Say that my screen resolution in X
ST> (virtual=physical) is 800x600. Say that my 'virtual desktop' is
ST> divided into 6x2 windows of 800x600 each. Label them row-wise: top
ST> A,B,C,D. Bottom E,F,G,H. Say the Control Panel widget is in window
ST> A. Say raster aRaster is on window F.

ST> If I try to do a snapshot of aRaster while focus is on window A,
ST> the program aborts. ("X Error failed request: BadMatch (invalid
ST> parameter attributes). Major opcode of failed request: 73
ST> (X_GetImage).")

I've added code to Swarm to cope with windows that are partially off-screen
or obscured by other windows.  But the virtual terminal stuff is
not the domain of Swarm, it's the domain of the window manager.

Look at:

 http://www.santafe.edu/projects/swarm/archive/list-archive.9807/0041.html

to get a feel for how you might use a programmable window manager to do this.
Scwm could definitely do the job.

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