The dialog boxes for the File/DumpCanvas menu item should come up to the side of the drawing editor, instead of centered over the drawing editor. The problem is the subsequent dump of the drawing canvas' X Window to a .xwd file includes that dialog box. It also includes the "File Already Exists" dialog box if one of those comes up.
You can work-around this problem by moving the dialog boxes aside, so the urgency is low, but it would be nice not to have to do that.
Other things to consider:
1) documenting/informing the user of the fact they can restart the drawing editor with the panner/zoomer/slider off if they want to not see that in the canvas dump (i.e. drawtool -zoff -poff -soff).
2) adding a "to command" checkbox on the DumpCanvas dialog box, to allow a Unix filter to be used for post-processing, like the Export Dialog box does.
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