Category: Quickies
Short-form posts, usually offering some quick advice or expressing my opinions.
How to take screenshots of partially/fully obscured windows in Xorg/X11
I initially posted this on my Fediverse account, and I’m now reposting it here for visibility. The all-lowercase text adds to the charm, so I’ll keep it.
…you can’t, not conventionally anyways. but there is a workaround! just start up an x session with xnest (that way you can still access the window you want to do stuff on). this will simply open a window with your new x session inside of it, and that should be enough
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How to take screenshots of partially/fully obscured windows in Xorg/X11
I initially posted this on my Fediverse account, and I’m now reposting it here for visibility. The all-lowercase text adds to the charm, so I’ll keep it.
…you can’t, not conventionally anyways. but there is a workaround! just start up an x session with xnest (that way you can still access the window you want to do stuff on). this will simply open a window with your new x session inside of it, and that should be enough
Read more...