Also known as X Window Dump
In the X Window System, the program xwd (X Window dump) captures the content of a screen or of a window and optionally saves it into a file.
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Within Vinony's link graph, xwd is referenced by 106 other articles, and connects out to Windows Metafile, Portable Network Graphics and image file format.
It sits within the topics 1985 introductions, Command-line graphics software and Free screenshot software.
Its subject is documented across 4 Wikipedia language editions.
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- gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/app/xwd
- software version identifier
- 1.0.8
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- Xwd
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- Image format
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- References
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In the X Window System, the program xwd (X Window dump) captures the content of a screen or of a window and optionally saves it into a file.
xwd runs in one of two ways: if a user specifies the whole screen or the name or identifier of a window as an argument, the program captures the content of the window; otherwise, it changes the shape of the cursor and waits for the user to click in a window, whose content is then captured.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “xwd” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.