Import Windows in XP
Posted: 2009-03-04T07:05:29-07:00
I'm currently running a Windows XP VMWare client on an Ubuntu server. I created a bash script that used import to take a screenshot of a window and then cropped it. Unfortunately this technique doesn't work very well because the application that is running on Windows is a small window and I need a crop of that particular window.
Anyways, I decided to install ImageMagick on the Windows Client so that I could drill down to the correct window and not have to worry about the location of this window in relation to the main screen. After installing I realized that import was not liking the whole "no X-Server" deal so I installed XMing.
I don't fully understand what XMing is supposed to do besides run X11Forwarding. Is it possible to install an X-Server that would locally assign an xwindowid to a native Windows application?
Anyways, I decided to install ImageMagick on the Windows Client so that I could drill down to the correct window and not have to worry about the location of this window in relation to the main screen. After installing I realized that import was not liking the whole "no X-Server" deal so I installed XMing.
I don't fully understand what XMing is supposed to do besides run X11Forwarding. Is it possible to install an X-Server that would locally assign an xwindowid to a native Windows application?