On 23 Nov 2008, at 12:16, John Allison wrote: On 21 Nov 2008, at 21:11, Jeremy Huddleston wrote: On Nov 21, 2008, at 11:57, John Allison wrote:
On 21 Nov 2008, at 17:28, Jeremy Huddleston wrote:
On Nov 21, 2008, at 01:42, John Allison wrote:
For me, cmd-shift-4, spacebar does not work. cmd-shift-4, region-select does work. This behaviour is indentical to Grab. (Region-select works, window select does not.)
(Thanks for drawing my attention to the very nice Screen Shots facility.)
What about 'xterm -t' ... can you take a screenshot of that?
Yes. "xterm -t" makes a Tektronix terminal that makes good screenshots in both modes (region select and window select). Just like plain xterm. It's the other applications - gv and gnuplot - that have the trouble.
Ok, well 'xterm -t' was a classic case of the last bug... Additionally in that bug, screen selections broke in addition to the window selection grab... so I'm inclined to think this is a new bug. Did you happen to try 2.3.1 to see if this bug was present in 2.3.1? If not, can you please try that version? It's been reported that there are problems in the installer not letting you downgrade, so you may need to manually trash /Applications/Utilities/X11.app before installing 2.3.1. Can you provide the 'xwininfo -all' output for the window that's misbehaving? Where did you get gv from? --Jeremy
I don't want to try 2.3.1 right now as it will disrupt what I'm working on right now (if it's important, I could maybe get round to it tomorrow), but meanwhile here's some further information. (I also should say that it's not a serious problem for me. Drag-a-region screenshot still works. But it would be nice to track down a bug. I take it you can't reproduce the problem yourself. Odd.)
My X11 applications were pretty old - maybe even a couple of years old - but updating makes no difference. The old applications that give the blank window symptom, from fink some time ago, are: /sw/bin/gv 3.6.1 /sw/bin/xfig 3.2 patchlevel 4 (Protocol 3.2) and from GNU: /usr/local/bin/gnuplot 4.2 patchlevel 2
I have now changed to MacPorts, and have installed: /opt/local/bin/xfig Xfig 3.2 patchlevel 5 (Protocol 3.2) I attach the screenshot (cmd-shift-4, spacebar, click) and the misbehaving window's xwininfo. It looks like some of the sub-windows and some of the content are being drawn, as though the window manager is responding but either not passing the request to the application or not giving the application enough time to redraw.
Also, a remote gnuplot window, using ssh -Y, also misbehaves: G N U P L O T Version 4.0 patchlevel 0 last modified Thu Apr 15 14:44:22 CEST 2004 System: Linux 2.6.9-34.ELsmp
Hope this helps.
John.
I have now tried 2.3.1. The symptom was there too.
(I have not been able to try 2.3.2_rc2 yet. It currently fails to make an X11.app.)
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