The following script will take a screenshot on a Gnome desktop.
import gtk.gdk
w = gtk.gdk.get_default_root_window()
sz = w.get_size()
pb = gtk.gdk.Pixbuf(gtk.gdk.COLORSPACE_RGB,False, 8, sz[0], sz[1])
pb = pb.get_from_drawable(w, w.get_colormap(), 0, 0, 0, 0, sz[0], sz[1])
if (pb != None):
pb.save("screenshot.png", "png")
print "Screenshot saved to screenshot.png."
else:
print "Unable to get the screenshot."
Now, I've been trying to convert this to C and use it in one of the apps I am writing but so far i've been unsuccessful. Is there any what to do this in C (on Linux)?
Thanks!
Jess.
I tested this and it does work, but there might be a simpler way to go from GdkPixbuf to a png this was just the first one I found. (There's no gdk_pixbuf_save()
)
#include <unistd.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <gdk/gdk.h>
#include <cairo.h>
int main(int argc, char **argv)
{
gdk_init(&argc, &argv);
GdkWindow *w = gdk_get_default_root_window();
gint width, height;
gdk_drawable_get_size(GDK_DRAWABLE(w), &width, &height);
GdkPixbuf *pb = gdk_pixbuf_get_from_drawable(NULL,
GDK_DRAWABLE(w),
NULL,
0,0,0,0,width,height);
if(pb != NULL) {
cairo_surface_t *surf = cairo_image_surface_create(CAIRO_FORMAT_RGB24,
width, height);
cairo_t *cr = cairo_create(surf);
gdk_cairo_set_source_pixbuf(cr, pb, 0, 0);
cairo_paint(cr);
cairo_surface_write_to_png(surf, "screenshot.png");
g_print("Screenshot saved to screenshot.png.\n");
} else {
g_print("Unable to get the screenshot.\n");
}
return 0;
}
you'd compile like this: (assuming you save it as screenshot.c)
gcc -std=gnu99 `pkg-config --libs --cflags gdk-2.0` screenshot.c -o screenshot
Edit: the stuff to save the pixbuf could also look like: (note I didn't try this out, but it's only one line...) Thanks to kaizer.se for pointing out my fail at doc reading :P
gdk_pixbuf_save(pb, "screenshot.png", "png", NULL, NULL);