Hi, Federico Mena Quintero <federico@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > > I've had this problem, and it appears to exist only with the version of > > xwd that's shipped with XFree86 4.0.x where x<=2. I upgraded to 4.0.3 > > and the problem went away. Same problem (with same version of X) existed > > with WindowMaker too. > > Oh dear. Don't tell me that the GIMP uses xwd for getting > screenshots. If so, please please *please* feel free to steal the > code from gdk_pixbuf_get_from_drawable(). it does ;-) The screenshot plug-in is kind of old and has always been a quick hack. On the other hand it works pretty well for most users... Yes, we are considering another solution for the next version of Gimp. Since we will use GTK+-2.0, we will also use gdk-pixbuf and can thus use the functionality gdk-pixbuf provides. For Gimp-1.2 however things will not change. Salut, Sven
