Other Printing Commands (xwd, xpr)

Printing a Screen

You can print an image of a window on the screen with a pipeline of simple commands:

xwd -frame | xpr -device ps | lpr

The command xwd (X window dump) converts the contents of a window into a file.
The -frame option tells the system to include the window's frame as well.
The second command xpr -device ps converts the output file from xwd into PostScript (ps) format.
The lpr command takes the PostScript output of xpr and prints it on a PostScript laser printer.

After you type this pipeline, the cursor will change to a plus (+) and you click inside the window you want to print (if you click in the root background, the whole screen will be captured). You will hear a beep, and then the image of the screen window will print on your default printer.

Go to the Print tutor main page.

Last modified on July 20, 2004 by cawalker.